i don t know how many injuries there were, but we know 14 people were transported to area hospitals with varying degrees of wounds. the sheriff there late this afternoon. this was a very large high school, a sprawling campus. and as you heard at the top of the broadcast, near the very beginning of this, there was also a fire alarm. it s still unclear whether that was pulled to alert the students, but some were already outside when they heard the gunfire. some of them ran back into the building. i spoke to gabriela figurosa just moments ago. she barricaded herself in a classroom closet. take a listen. gabriela, thank you for being with us. i know this was a horrific afternoon to witness. you were actually outside, because you had heard a fire alarm at first? yes. and that s when you heard the shooting begin? yes. it just started when the fire alarm began. how many gunshots did you hear? i heard about six. six gunshots. and it was your instinct to then run back inside the b
given this was on the third floor of this building, one of the buildings on this sprawling campus, police response was incredibly fast. about five minutes. by the time they got there, the damage was done, the shooter was dead. we expect more information 10:00 local, 1:00 p.m. eastern. i m sure we ll bring that to you live. now to massachusetts. the panic was allegedly sparked, get this, by a student trying to avoid a final exam. 21-year-old eldo kimm is in court today. reporter: you re probably thinking how fast did this happen, this arrest? the affidavit is amazeding, articulate with so many facts. this sophomore at harvard decided he didn t want to take an exam. at 8:30 in the morning he called in a bomb threat. the subject line says bombs placed around campus.
inflict some serious injuries on people. and something you can easily pop in your pocket. absolutely. exacto knife, could be one of those something you cut do dissections with, paper, anything else, carpeting, anything. it is a razor. this is according to this affiliate out of houston. let me pause because we have some sound from our houston affiliates, they re busy trying to talk to people, what are they seeing what are they hearing. let s take a listen. campus where it first started at, the health and science building, i was right in that area. we heard things and movement and what not of people, i don t know, officers detaining the man. so what do you know happened? what did you see and what have you heard? i didn t see i didn t really see anything. i just saw bodies people being carried to the ambulance. multiple stab wounds. people with multiple stab wounds, multiple victims. yes, sir. was anybody having an explanation for what was going
your mind that something similar could happen here? yes, it did. it sure did. but i wasn t too worried about it because it seemed so far away from us. and here, i mean, it is a nice campus, i mean, there isn t a lot of security. i don t see a lot of security. but it is just no, i didn t think that would happen here. what is your name? sherry. thank you for taking a moment for my. how frightening for a lot of students there, of course, in the middle of class, tuesday, late morning, early afternoon, in the houston, texas area, to be seeing and witnessing this, potentially from classroom to classroom, the stabbing that is happening. we don t know. s i asked, was this a student who is this one suspect who is detained, he said they re getting conflicting reports. so they cannot say for sure. we do know the sheriff and also the chancellor of the school will be speaking within the hour. maybe they will be able to provide a little more clarity on the situation. it is a fluid situat
of knows all kinds of situations involving campus lockdowns, worked in law enforcement for many years, have chad myers also standing by and he ll walk us through where we re talking about in texas. a couple of things, chad, you ready to roll? you bet. we were talking before the show started, this campus is the cyfair campus, northwest of houston. we talked about this lone star college before. this is not the first incident for lone star college. this is not the same campus. there are multiple campuses of this we ll call it a commuter facility. this is where you don t live on campus, you live at home, you drive to the campus, and you go to school and then you go to your job or you go home. almost like a community college type atmosphere out there. it is northwest of houston, where the last incident was up toward the woodlands, north of houston. but still harris county. and harris county proper is where the city of houston is. you take a line from houston,