through. a checklist, to make sure everything s safe for people inside the building. the obvious is to get them out, get them safe and reunited with family, and our investigation will continue. you re not ready to say anything about any possible injuries? correct. correct. i ll have an update for you as soon as possible. all right. thank you very much. any time. appreciate it. lieutenant ryan frasier we re dipping there in to the affiliate, wjla on scene, at the press conference involving one of the public information officers. appeared to be lieutenant ryan frasier with the anne arundel county police department there in maryland. responding to an active shooter. he confirmed that, but not able to confirm whether there were indeed any injuries nor whether anybody had been taken into custo custody. we heard him say they re doing what they can to secure the building. they wanted to get everybody out, reunited with families, make sure as many people as possible are safe. thi
that they bring to the table. so it is it is situations like this, you know, offices are, police departments, federal agencies have offices in many different places, and they re going to surge the resource to the scene. what s going on here? i mean, looks like there were a few more people walking out with their hands up. now there are literally dozens of people heading back toward the building. reporter: yeah. tough to say. obviously we don t have a lot of information. that would lead us to believe that maybe the all clear has been given and they re allowing people to go back in. i can t fathom law enforcement allowing citizens that they just evacuated back into a building if there was a continuing it threat. there s a flurry if there was a continuing threat. there s a flurry of activity. it s confusing. this is a matter of terminology because i ve seen different reports from media outlets, in this business, obviously, we have to call it like it is. but there s one phrase that
information? that s right. i m told by a law enforcement source that there have been people who were wounded in this active shooting. the police there still calling it an active shooting. but as josh and i think tom have both referred to the pictures, you see police coming out, police standing back. that means that they believe they ve contained the situation. they re not saying it yet. they re calling this an active shooter situation. but it is clear that they believe that perhaps they have moved into a stage where they at least control the situation. i m told by a law enforcement source that it appears they have somebody in custody who may believe may have carried out the shooting. again, there s a lot of investigative work that needs to be done. we don t know if the person in custody is the person who carried out the shooting. at least at this point the law enforcement people on the scene there believe they have the person contained who carried out the shooting. we don t know the
government, annapolis state house. they do it all in a relatively small, small budget. this is the kind of newspaper readers can stop by, members of the public can stop by. the address of the office was well known to the public. we don t know if the newsroom was targeted. if it was and if journalists were killed, this will be the first time journalists killed on assignme assignment. you remember the shooting in 2016 when the news crew was attacked on live tv. it is thankfully rare to see this kind of thing happen. we don t know the full context of the incident. we know it s in the rise of press against journalists in recent years. either way, whether random or targeted, t causie it is causin in other numerous. police have arrived at the newsroom of the baltimore sun as a precautionary measure, justijust to be on scene, both because are owned by the same parent company. josh, i want to get your reaction. the president, first lady, briefed. and now evan perez reporting
indiscriminately take large loss of life. obviously annapolis, you have the seat of government there, a lot of malls and other types of areas. there s a lot we don t know. we ll have to drill down and find out what made the location the target for the person or persons that were responsible. again, we re seeing some reports that are coming in as far as casualties, some injuries, no reports yet that we ve seen of any loss of life. again, that doesn t make it any less serious as we continue to see. i think that s a state police helicopter we see to the right. when these happen, you ll see resources that will surge into a location. you know, law enforcement from federal, state, local agencies will surround the scene, obviously this happened a short time ago. so we understand that law enforcement has already been there, locked down the scene, and is going through. we ll have to wait and see as information flows in what we re dealing with as far as a person or persons responsible. what st