being a citizen these days. wanted to let viewers know that the podium scene there, we re waiting for the briefing. you re seeing various reporters and technicians go on up and test their microphones to make sure everything s working. obviously when the governor of oregon arrives, whoever is going to brief the news media, will go to it live. you re seeing police tape around this building with the three sky lights there seems to be where most people are coming in and out and the adjacent building. all become familiar with confines of campus. you see the k-9 unit there. again the threat as we ve just learned and been reminded is, kind of a secondary threat, the threat of explosives. threat that something could be rigged, on a timer.
going to change over night and they desperately want space, back off and kids tend to flee their houses. obviously every situation is different. your child may be different. but that s just a piece of information for families out there who obviously have no idea what s about to happen to them. that s from experience from some other people in the past. made complicated, i don t know better or worse by the fact that probably just a quarter to a fifth of the students are students who just graduated from high school this past fall with the average student body age of over 37 years of age, this is mostly a part-time campus, as most community colleges are. sure. this is mostly a home by day to older adult students. right, right. which actually changes the dynamic of it, too. with virginia tech versus columbine we saw really
all law enforcement in the area responded immediately to the campus. the active shooter was engaged by law enforcement and later confirmed to be deceased. our number one priority right now is to make sure that the scene is secure and the victims are treated and making sure that we have a complete crime scene and that we continue to make sure that there are no additional threats. the oregon state police is combining with all of the local law enforcement including the douglas county sheriff s office in making sure that we are doing all of the things that the community needs us to do. we have set up a command center. we have set up an additional area for media relations, our pio is there, lieutenant bill fugate to assist in the future. as we know, families in these events become very frazzled and continue to make sure that we re communicating what we need to
shock to the entire community to have this level of crime and incident occur in college or school system. are you happy with the response of law enforcement in this situation? i am extremely happy with the response. i ve got fellow sheriffs here that have been through similar situations up in the valley that have come to provide support and assistance. like i said, oregon state police provided us with a tremendous amount of resources and i couldn t be happier. how many people do you think are on campus trying to investigate this situation? superintendent, do you know? i couldn t i m guessing i m guessing we have well over 100 detectives and officers, uniformed officers, out there. any officers injured? talk about there s been no report of any of the officers injured. what do you suggest the public do right now? sorry? what do you suggest the
a lot of support in this investigation. can you tell us anything about the shooter or what weapon was used? at this point, i cannot. i can tell you the shooter was a male subject. i have no other information. alive or dead? the shooter is deceased. how many wounded? sorry? can we confirm how many wounded? i cannot at this time, no. what is this like for your deputies in a community this size where everyone knows someone on the campus? it s i m sure it s very frightening for a lot of people that were responding. you re right, this is a small community. it s a community college, so a lot of our friends and family attend this college. and it was a situation that was there was no answers for quite some time. i personally know of a number of people that i work with that had