Hospital. And the inner perimeter is going is going to be solely Police Officers that have firepower. Darren, hold that thought for a second. Hold that fought for a second. Its the top of the hour. We have new viewers joining us. I want to reset the scene. You are looking at your screen, live pictures outside bronxlebanon hospital in the bronx on the grand concourse. A Major Medical center, trauma unit in the bronx where there has been an active shooter situation. New York Police Department confirming now that the shooter is dead. The shooter has been shot. Apparently a shooter with what people are describing as an ar15 type gun, a long gun thats not typical of assaults seen in new york city because that type of gun is very, very hard to get in new york city. But there is a report of at least one person other than the shooter who has been shot at the hospital. And there are multiple conflicting reports about whether others have been shot. We also have reports that there was a fire on the eighth floor of the hospital and that there was smoke coming out of the 16th floor. Youve got a Helicopter Shot on the right side of your screen, which does not show any smoke. But we did see very large numbers of firefighters assemble moments ago outside the hospital. It is unclear whether they have gone in. Well try to get that information in a moment. But you see a very, very Large Police Presence around the bronx. This is a very busy area of the bronx. Grand concourse is a major thoroughfare in the bronx and bronxlebanon hospital a not for profit private hospital in the bronx is a Major Medical center in the bronx. I want to go to nbc News Reporter adam reese whos on the scene for us now. Hes joining me on the phone. Adam, i think you were there moments ago when we got confirmation that the shooter is dead. At that point, was there was there a change in activity outside the hospital with those police and firefighters who had been assembled out there . Absolutely, ali, good afternoon. As that happened, a Senior Police official said to me its over. You could see the dozens of Police Officers heavily armed Police Officers here breathe a sigh of relief. They were shaking hands, some of them were hugging. It is over. There is a huge, huge Police Presence here in the south bronx. As you know this hospital serves the south and central bronx. Just to give our viewers across america a sense of where we are, we are blocks from Yankee Stadium in the south bronx. This happened just hours ago, conflicting reports as you suggested. A male black 6 feet tall we believe, wearing a White Lab Coat according to some reports had opened fire with an ar15. One report indicated that maybe three doctors may have been shot. It is according to one report that this shooter may have been a disgruntled former employee. At this time, ali, we dont see any fire or smoke coming from the hospital. There are still emergency vehicles en route. I can tell you there are emergency vehicles going north and south as far as the eye can see. There are Emergency Service units. There are heavily armed vehicles that have arrived here. Just in case. As commissioner bratton said, in the last hour, no one can handle this better than the new York Police Department. They are here in force. They were able to handle this situation very quickly. Efficiently. And as it appears the situation is over, we just dont know at this time how many people are injured inside the hospital. There were reports that during this situation they had locked down the hospital. You reported earlier there may have been smoke coming from either the eighth floor or the 16th floor, so there are fire units en route and arriving at this point. I can tell you that hundreds of residents here in this south bronx had come out on to this street to look at the situation. Just a massive Police Presence, responding to this shooting today in the south bronx. Adam, stand by. I have nbc news Investigative Reporter tom winter who is following the story. You have new reporting . Sure. Heres what we know, the latest from nypd officials of what is confirmed. Right now, were only hearing that theres been one person shot. Thats whats been confirmed to us. Theres a possibility of course that there could be more. There are numerous 911 calls that were received when this incident first happened. Thats what kind of thats what got people interested and got people fired up this was an active shooter. At this point, it appears to be contained to the hospital at this point. At this point it appears to be an exemployee. Were aware of the name of the person, but were awaiting confirmation and we want to be careful with that. Right now the nypd believes theyre dealing with a Workplace Violence incident and not a terrorist incident. Again, its very early in the investigation. The nypd as you heard in lester holt and you heard from former commissioner bratton and i cant think of two people who youd rather from on this type of incident, but the police are charged with going in, pushing the fight. Lester and i have been with some of the elite units over the last two weeks training with them. So this idea of a shooting in the workplace is something theyre very well prepared for. At this time it appears that the gunman or at least a gunman is down. Thats what the nypd has said officially and it appears that the incident is somewhat isolated. I have talked with Fire Department officials and senior new york city officials regarding the reports of a fire. Those are reports of smoke that were coming at the time from 911 callers. Its not clear yet there is an actual fire on these floors. I know from past active shooters in my experience in covering these that, you know, oftentimes people think theres smoke because of the smell, because of the gun fire smell. So we need to be a little bit careful with that at this point because the Fire Department hasnt had much of a chance to go in there. Because this was an active shooter to look at the scene. So thats kind of where we stand at the moment. Again, not believed to be terrorism at this time. Does appear to be an exemployee involved as the shooter and the incident absolutely appears to be contained to the hospital and the nypds top armed units, the srg is inside the hospital. Theyre clearing it this time along with Emergency Services unit. Thats the new York Police Departments version of s. W. A. T. Theyll get a better handle of the information as the reports come back out to us. The nypd has said that the shooter is dead. Thats short of an all clear. Yes. Thats definitely short of an all clear. That thats kind of their language for saying, hey, we have it contained to this spot. We dont believe theres anything else going on connected to this incident at this time. Obviously they need to be extra careful, could he have left something somewhere that could be designed to hurt First Responders as they clear the scene. Yes, if they checked the closet, checked his person, made sure thats no explosives or a secondary device and doublechecked theres not an additional shooter, statistics show most times these incidents are just a single shooter. Then at that point theyd issue an all clear. At this point, theyre saying, hey, we think weve got it. Weve got the units here that are ready to that are ready to go, that are trained to go from room to room, floor to floor. And so thats just them at this point saying, you know, we know what were looking at and now were going to be thorough and do our police work. Tom, you made some distinctions. You talked about the srg. That is a Strategic Response group that was formed by bill bratton who we just talked to on the phone. Back in 2015. It is a very, very large group of police. They dont theyre not necessarily all there, but its 800 new York Police Department officers who are trained for response. It was generally thought to be set up around terrorism, but they were involved in this response. Well, one of the things about the srg that deafs from the crc, the Critical Response command, the srg is embedded within patrol. They may handle an incident like this thats Workplace Violence. They may respond to the shooting related to the specific call in a business. Their idea is that for the officers that are on the street and patrol day to day, they dont have the long guns, they may not have the extra armor. Theyre kind of there to back up the police and to assist them. So whereas the crc is more designed as a counterterrorism response and theyre the units that you frequently see in front of say trump tower, down at the world trade center, in times square. Other high profile spots in new york city. So the srg is in patrol. This is what they were designed and kind of brought to bear to respond to an incident just like this where theres reports of shots fired. Multiple 911 calls and when responding to an active shooter the current thinking in policing is to confront that shooter as soon as possible. Most incidents they only last 3 1 2 minutes. So you have to get there quickly and you have to confront the shooter quickly. Thats what the srg is for. So they would have been out on the streets, they would have been in the area. They would have been in part of the patrol and that section of the bronx and they would have been there to handle it. All right. Tom, thanks for the good reporting. Stand by along with adam reese. I want to go back to bill bratton. Actually, ali, do i still have you . You do. Okay. So at this point we have heard from multiple Law Enforcement officials and we are prepared to name the suspect. His name is henry bellow. Thats multiple Law Enforcement sources in new york city, jonathan dienst and myself. Henry bellow is the suspect. We may have a picture of him shortly but i wanted to break in and name the suspect and again that individual has been identified as deceased by the nypd. They have stated that publicly and we have now gotten that confirmed that that is the person who did the shooting today. You are led to understand that henry bellow is a former employee of the hospital . We have been told that bellow is in fact a former employee of the hospital and im not sure quite what his position is. Thats been kind of batted around as far as what his title is. But thats the name that thats the name that we have been told by multiple Law Enforcement sources, both jonathan dienst and myself. Please let us know as soon as youve got more information. Tom winter with nbcs investigative unit. Back with me on the phone is bill bratton who gave us a lot of information that turned out to be very correct about this. Commissioner, we have a name of a former employee of the hospital. Apparently armed with a long rifle of sorts. People tend to say ar15 because its what they know but we dont know exactly what type of weapon it is. As you said, we saw numerous heavily armed police with long guns going into that hospital. Part of them were members of the srg which i believe the Strategic Response group, i believe you were at the head of the formation of. Let me give you a quick explanation of how the nypd is now structured and has been restructured over the last three years. Every Police Officer in the city of new york is has either gone through active Shooter Training or will shortly be going through active shooting trainer. So you know the two officers that respond the first officers in the radio car that you are trained to very quickly get in to confront the active shooter. The department has either completed or is in the process of equipping every one of those squad cars with ballistic helmets and heavier duty ballistic vests. Heavier than what the officers would normally wear under their shirts. Secondly, there is the Emergency Service unit which is correctly describe as a s. W. A. T. Team, but its capabilities are far beyond that. 600 members who for many years were the elite that the patrol officers would rely on. But at any given time, it might be fewer than a hundred of them throughout the whole city. During my time as commissioner, we created a third and fourth level of response. The srg which you have been describing. Strategic response group. Broken down into a number of sub sectors throughout the city. At any given time there are several hundred of those officers equipped with long guns, with the extra ballistic vests, specialized training, more so than the officers in the patrol cars would have. In addition to those, approximately 800 srg officers oh, by the way, also the riot police that are trained to work with bicycles, et cetera, crowd control. Then you have the Critical Response command which has been specifically formed to deal with terrorist related incidents. They receive a lot of intelligence, intelligence briefings. They also are equipped with the long guns. Specialized vehicles. Helmets. All of them are cross trained so that as youre seeing here, every one of those units is now at that hospital scene so that well, they can work independently, they can work as theyre doing here in collaboration. The city has geared up so that they can get 200 to 300 officers to any location within 10 or 15 minutes as you saw in this situation here. Theres no city in america that has those resources. The mayor here is committed hundreds of millions of dollars over the last three years and when i was commissioner, now oneill is commissioner, to this mission. Training of officers constantly. The best equipment in america and constantly updating that equipment and the best intelligence in america. The nypd, Counterterrorism Division under commissioner miller. What youre seeing also is i think you will find when its all said and done is the classic lone wolf active shooter situation that i know lester holt of nbc has been exposing as part of the preparations for a special. But the idea is the shootings, the victims oftentimes secured within the first three to five minutes, and thus the need to get police in there as fast as possible. The individual often times will take their own life when confronted with police. We dont know the circumstances of this one yet. In this case it does appear to be a disgruntled former employee. The police had his kind of an identification within ten minutes thats why the sense was very quickly that this was an active shooter, Workplace Violence incident rather than a terrorist incident. This is all preliminary. Thats what the investigation will determine. But what theyre doing now in that hospital is searching every room for people who may be hiding out of fear. Theres potentially another of a victim right now, they believe they have four to six. But theyre looking to see if there are more. I would point out that this is a modern day hospital that would have modern state of the art smoke detectors, et cetera. Sprinkler systems. So the issue about whether there was a fire or not a fire, some of the Fire Suppression capabilities within the building apart from the Fire Department would be extensive in and of themselves. A lot more information to come out of this. There were others injured. Nypd now is confirming several are injured. In this shooting. Theyre saying the shooter is deceased. Several others are injured at bronxlebanon hospital. Commissioner, tell me what the process of events are. Theyre going through, theyre looking for people who are hiding. Looking for anybody whos injured. Confirming that theres no one else involved in this shooting. But the scene doesnt get cleared until all thats done. Well, that scene is not going to be cleared for quite some time, because its an active crime scene spread over multiple floors. The victims in terms of the four to six commissioner, im going to interrupt you now. Channel 4s got theyre hearing from some people inside the hospital. Lets listen in. Well hes nervous. Okay. So it took you an hour to get out of the hospital . Yeah. Whats going through your mind knowing what happened inside of there . Theres more people hurt inside of there. We were told five people were shot in there. I hope theyre okay, basically, you know . Im glad i wasnt one of those people or anything like that. So all right. Thank you so much. Whats your name . Maya. Thank you. Again, we want to show you what its like. Police continue to respond to the shooting which took place before 3 00. You can see the sea of Police Officers and Police Officers outside at this hour. We spoke to someone in the emergency room at that time. It was chaotic as they tried to rush out. It took over an hour to get outside the hospital. Now police are going room by room, making sure that the scene has been cleared. Weve learned that the gunman is dead and at this point, police, Fire Department still here as this Investigation Continues to unfold. Were live in the bronx right now. Well send it back to you. All right. I want to bring commissioner bill bratton back into the conversation. You were hearing that commissioner, that was describing exactly what you have been telling us. That police are going to go through that hospital as you have been describing to us and we heard from someone else earlier. They know how to cover ground in a big building like that. Thats correct. They have the resources to do it. A lot of smaller departments would have a s. W. A. T. Team, smaller numbers of offic