this is sheriff garcia. i am joined by senior vice chancellor and chief operating officer, dr. rand key of the lone star college system and he ll be providing important details to today s incident. let me also say that i have with me the police chief of the lone star community of the lone star college police department who is here along with his personnel and his assistant chief as well. i have the major, the patrol major, steven marino, part of the response to the incident today. and then we have lieutenant ralph nelson, who is leading the investigation into the incident, today s incident. who is he with? harris county sheriff s office. let me say that at 11:12 a.m., we received a call at our 911
and in fact that s almost concluded, as you can see from the parking lot. the college is closed for the remainder of today. we are scheduled to resume normal operations tomorrow. as sheriff s garcia stated, i would like to thank the other responders that came,th texas rangers, the sheriff s department and other who assisted. although our president was not on campus today, she was in constant communication with our command center and was right there with us the whole time but she was off-campus. we ll continue to monday store the situation. it s an ongoing investigation so we re somewhat limited on what we can say. can you give a timeline on the alert? let me ask the help of the media one important point. the school is receiving a inordinate number of calls from concerned family members. we re asking your help to please