a reunification center. it s not too far but you have to walk there. they had police officers walking with them with hands in the air. those that did not walk off campus, according to this eyewitness was local reporting, they are in the gymnasium, the library, and in a classroom or classrooms. that s at least helpful in terms of knowing the configuration of what police are dealing with. not only is the campus sprawling and they are trying to get to areas to see if that suspect has left, but they are walking with children both in between these buildings, melissa, as you were describing, getting to the identified campus-safe areas. i want to point out yeah, all right. let s go to our correspondent, christina pullman, live outside the school. christina, what can you tell us?
department is reporting outside saugus high school in santa clarita, california. this is what the sheriff s department deputies are calling the next phase in the search. the first was to lock down the area, both to schools nearby, perhaps the suspect may have ran towards one of them. he was last seen in black clothing leaving the campus after the shooting but we can tell you that those two schools, including an elementary, has been locked down. these 1 from authorities on the ground, evacuating as many as they possibly can. if you heard from our reporting with william la jeunesse and some of our other correspondence that part of the plan was to get students out of the school. you saw them with their hands up, walking behind law enforcement. the others that they felt they couldn t safely evacuate quickly went into an auditorium area but the systematic search is what
william la jeunesse just a short time ago reporting, independently confirmed with his own sources that the shooter apparently took his own life on the campus, where we saw some of the yellow tape. if i can ask you, ted, one of the things we saw a short time ago was executing a search warrant on what we believed was the home of the shooter but they were taking screens off the windows and going in from the inside. i imagine part of the concern was if the shooter planned this and went to the school to do this, could the house be booby trapped? what are they to expect at his home? what are your thoughts on that? no doubt about it that your other guests were right and proper about this, melissa and harris, but if the shooter was in the home, they would be no need whatsoever to get a warrant, it would be extension
it doesn t make sense to me, how this could happen here. reporter: you are hearing from your friends? texting, calling, group chats to make sure everyone is safe. we are on lockdown. reporter: i was told by parents that many are in the gymnasium or other classrooms? the library, classrooms, auditorium. the three places they are right now. reporter: what did they tell you? get off campus if you can, get in a hiding spot. that s the best. reporter: i m glad you all are safe. okay, we will send it back to you guys. harris: we ve been listening to local media reporting there, our fox affiliate, we were hearing an eyewitness interview obviously. that s very good, contextually, to understand what you were describing, melissa, the makeup of saugus high school. they ve been moved off campus to
yeah, that s what a number of people are saying out here. when the shooting happened around 7:30 this morning, this is a time when people, kids were being dropped off. some reported there were sheriff deputies out here just dropping their own kids off. you can only imagine the kind of fear they are feeling when a shooting takes place in their very own neighborhood, in a school, an area they consider very safe. melissa? harris: it is harris, actually. you are giving us a great perspective of how much of a response there is out there. i m curious in the reporting about this 15-year-old suspect. we do have some pretty good details considering this person might not have been recognizable to be running off from the campus, as it has been described. is this person said to be known to any of law enforcement or anyone at this school? from what i am hearing, what