the operating room. yes, i heard it from the witnesses and the parents that some people may have done some heroic acts today. the vice principal may have helped to quell the suspect and get him under control, and under arrest, and like you said, some other people may have saved some of their friends lives today. and give us a time line today of when the first reports came in, and to where we are right now. 7:13 a.m. was the first call to westmoreland 911, and it is a murrysville school police officer who called it in. and ambulance and police began to arriving and i spoke to one witness who was dropping his son off at the time, and he said strains of students running out of the school, and the security guards herding them down to the field nearby, a football field, and just updated at noon by the
to evacuate the students, but it sounds like it added to the fear and the urgency to get out of there, especially given this individual slashing students it sounds in the hallway. right. according to the police chief, the suspect apparently had two knives, and he was, the police chief said previously that he was walking through the hall, and students injured in classrooms, and so, yes, probably a pretty chaotic scene this morning. and obviously, we are not identifying this student, but you have been on the scene, and did you hear from individuals who knew him or were able to identify this 16-year-old? i have. the one female student said she didn t know who he was. the police have identified him as a 16-year-old sophomore. another student said that he didn t know who he was and surprised that this would happen. and i understand also that there is at least one report or
chief of police or sorry, 10:30 a.m. by the chief of police and e expecting another update at noon. and from the school superintendent, and we are expecting that at 12:00 noon, and getting the information from the parent who dropped the child off, and school had not officially started for the day? no, it was 7:13 a.m., and school starts 10 to 15 minutes later, and that student was walking into the building, and the parents saw just students running out, and he saw a girl lying on the ground helped by others and his son was just corralled into the football fie field, and everyone eventually was taken over to the middle school on campus. and the chief of police in his news conference a short time ago indicated that the crime area is over a widespread amount of space. indicating that either these students were in the hallways and the chaos added to some of the injuries and obviously, the pulling of the fire alarm according to officials did help
and now the students and the teachers filed outside of franklin regional high school in murrysville this morning, and these are images from the air, and controlled scene s ths that police had taken the suspect into custody. and now according to the new information regarding the suspect is identified as a 16-year-old student at the school. he was also treated for h medical issues, and now it is not clear what those injuries were or if they were injuries at all, but we know that the individual was treated at one of the local hospitals. now, the chief of police spoke moments ago and he said that a fire alarm was pulled in the attack, and that may have saved lives. and the first thing is that you want the students to do is to run. you know, and upon my arrival and the arrival of the other f officers is that people were chaotic and running everywhere,