directly from the daily herald number from the chicago suburbs. cameras on the ground on scene. you can see this mass presence of police and fire officials. there was a call for all available ambulances to come. in the beginning, they didn t have an idea of how many people may have been injured. we see more ambulances arriving now on the aerial shot from wls. a couple of more red fire department ambulances making their way on the scene as we speak. we don t know numbers yet. i think the height the headline at the moment is, shooter on the loose. we don t know whether the shooter has escaped this building, but the best reporting from people that say they are witnesses, on scene, not authorities, but we want to pass what witnesses on the ground are saying. the stories tend to remain
peer a long period of time documenting the evidence. so this is just going going here. the cane county state s attorney had written that we re told multiple people have been struck by gun fire. i m looking at the washington post. they heard from police in aurora that multiple officers were injured. we know four have been hurt, multiple civilians wounded and being airlifted to the hospital. the word just coming minutes ago that the shooter han be apprehended but the area is on lockdown. i want to bring up the fact this is a different building. this is all a manufacturing area. we re dealing with the henry pratt and then we moved to the al grove steel building where shepard: i want to show you a different picture coming in from wls, which is another of our network news service affiliates. in the center there, you can see the ambulances that have all
moved in. when we got word the shooter was apprehended, it was two or three minutes before this series of ambulances made their way in there and history tells us from covering way too many of these situations the past 20 years or so, the ambulances often move in once the police have said all right, there s no longer a threat to authorities. look at all the ambulances in the foreground. you can see many ambulance there s and a number made their way to the building. you want to make sure there s no damage to the officials so they can get other people that might have been injured. imagine the situation. you re looking for the shooter. you have to get the shooter in custody. we saw that activity moving toward the building. once you have the situation safe and nobody else will be hurt, then you have to scour the building looking for more
that goes. if the statements are correct, something happens from the 7: 7:00 a.m. arrival until 1:40 when the report went out on the scanners. the suspect apprehended after he shot multiple people. multiple aurora police officers and civilians. this is from the daily herald. a spokesman said mercy hospital has activated an incident command center and prepared to treat any patients that may have arrived. mercy hospital will be holding a briefing at some point. police are urging anybody there to still remain away from the area. it s blocked off because of the police activity that is obvious on scene. monitoring the reporting of the local news agencies now. suspect apprehended with many people shot.
said the police were assisting those involved. they pinpointed the active shooting at 641 archer avenue and roads are still blocked off in that area. the west aurora school district still holding students in place for their safety due to the incident. all of that from the reporting of the chicago tribune newspaper. from the live pictures from our local stations on scene, on the left-hand side of the screen there, that s a live picture outside the scene where you can see authorities have gathered. we re still waiting for the mayor to check in with us. we re expecting that to happen shortly. a lot on the mayor s plate at this point and with so many people injured in this mass casualty situation there. you know mayor richard irvin wants to find out what s happening. it s a wait-and-see situation at this point. we know area hospitals have been extremely busy this afternoon. jonathan hunt mentioned a level