jose. it s going to be over at the isaac newton auditorium. if you have any family member that you re trying to reach out or gather any type of information, we ask you to call our santa clara county communications line which is 408-299-2311. again, 408-299-2311. this is still active. ongoing. and what i m going to do is i m going to route this over to our sheriff laurie smith who will speak very briefly on this incident and then we re going to move on to the next person from there. sergeant, about the eight. does that include the gunman or i m sorry, say that again. the eight so the eight victims is eight victims including and there s one suspect as well. so that s nine altogether. nine. so there s nine. there s nine. eight casualties from victims and then one suspect casualty at this point as well. is there a second scene? so the building that they re at is 11 west younger avenue. is a valley transportation
and also trained in verbal judo to de-escalate situations. and normally we re able to de-escalate situations, but lately they have been so aggressive and have escalate sod quickly that it goes beyond even our training. so sorry to hear. lynn montgomery, really appreciate your time. thank you for being with us. and i want to take you right now live to this press conference under way in san jose, california. this morning at 6:34 in the morning santa clara county communications center received multiple 911 calls regarding a shots fired call located at the area of 101 west younger avenue in the city of san jose. this building is a valley transportation authority, vta transit building and houses a vta control center at that building. the information that we have so far is we do have multiple victims and we have multiple victims ranging from fatalities and major injuries at this
authority hub center. it s a control center. and that s where they re at at this point. the fire. we re still ongoing and trying to figure out exactly if there s connection or any information on that point. we re still trying to gather that information. was ammunition found inside this i don t . i m going to route there over to the sheriff. first of all, this is an active investigation. there are many, many components we are continues to discover. we mentioned the victim unification center. please, please have respect for the victims families right now. we appreciate san jose p.d. was with us immediately going into the building and our teams showed exemplary behavior, what they re trying to do while the shots were being fired. our teams are entering the building when shots are still going on.
we attempted rescues. it s uncertain where that is right now. we don t want to take a lot of questions. we will give you all the information that we can, as it comes known. we really don t want to speculate right now. we appreciate your conch of this. my heart goes out to the families and the victims. it s a tragic situation, and we have some very brave officers and deputies. reporter: there s a device in that building, is there any danger to the public at large? no, we have it cordoned off. our law enforcement and we know which building. reporter: how many devices do you think? we re not certain. we re still searching. reporter: you found one, which leads you to at least one? we explosive information, and
active ongoing investigation. we have all the resources out here from city, county, and federal agencies out here including the fbi and the d.a. and homeland security out here to assist with this investigation. so again, we have a lot of resources out here. ourselves we re trying to figure out what exactly happened, what s going on. we received information that there are explosive devices that are located inside the building. with that being said, we activated our bomb squad, which is currently out on scene and trying to determine pretty much we re trying to clear out every room and every crevice of that building and ensure that the public safety is rest assured if we open up that building later on in the near future. so that being said, getting the information out to all of you is going to be a little bit fluid and dynamic. it s going to take some time for us just to go in there and render the area safe so we can have investigators going on scene to determine collect evidence and