images from our local affiliate wtvd and wral of a very chaotic situation with the heavy police presence and it includes ambulances there on the scene. that is become a starkly different scene now as you see students and backpacks casually walking up and down the sidewalks on campus. the initial report said this incident took place at the bell tower area of the campus which is a central part along south road which is one of the main thoroughfares there. students describing their anxiety saying they are terrified because there is scarce information coming out from police. we saw images of students rus rushing away from buildings with hands up. this scene has become very different as we re looking at a student there and a backpack which appears to be on the phone. but this incident is still very much active. we ve heard governor roy cooper tweeting about this.
began seeing images from wtvd and wral of a chaotic situation and an all too familiar situation on campuses of individual students that it appears being let out with their hands up, escorted by police officers in tactical gear. that was around 1:00 p.m. and into the 2:00 p.m. hour. anden this the scene abruptly changed and it seemed as though things were calming down. it was just shortly a little while ago that the university of north carolina police put out a photo of a person of interest. and i what to show that to our viewers. the photo or the x, this photo shows a person of interest in today s armed and dangerous person situation. if you see this person, keep your distance, put your safety first, and call 911. that is coming from the unc police department. prior to that, we had heard or seen a tweet from governor roy cooper who said this was an active shooter situation and he was pledging any and all
thanks, joe. hold out. let s get back to former fbi special agent nicole parker. your thoughts on the fact that wral is reporting that a suspect is in custody. if that s the case, is it now time to release more information about a name and maybe it s time to take the picture done or leave it up and that benefits the investigation? you know, it s not going to hurt to keep it up if that is the person that is in custody. like your previous guest say, maybe there was a co conspirator in this. likely not. we don t know. right now the tempo is going to slow down. once the individual and the threat to so tiety and to the school has been eliminated, if that is the individual, they are in custody, law enforcement will continue to investigation feverishly. safety is number 1. now it s happened. if there s only one individual
authorities are very sketchy on details. the shooter, you can see on the lower right is all we know. he s been named and identified in other sites. we re not doing that right now. one thing we re trying to find out is how this started. a little after 1:00 p.m. where there was a call out on the campus site that remain sheltered in place, this is an ongoing situation amount suspect at large. please be safe. now the late forecast jonathan hunt who has been following this since it all erupted about three hours ago. jonathan, what can you tell us? neil, good afternoon to you. we re now getting reports via wral, one of the local tv stations there in raleigh, north carolina, that the suspect is in custody. wral quoting police sources saying that they have the suspect and that same station has also shed a photograph of a
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