essentially shelter in place, do whatever you need to do. i think the second thing, though, that is unique here is we tend to leave most of these incidents, whether it s a florida school shooting or el paso and a walmart or even a street in ohio, you do have a stationary site. the moving shooter in realtime, as compared to say the washington sniper, what, over 15 years ago, is unique because you have a chase, if they know where they are, combined with the capacity of the guy to get away, plus he s armed, and we just don t know now whether there s passengers or anything else, so that is just so, you know, this is so fluid, and dangerous because, you know, the guy or guys can get off the highway, you know, exit 4, whatever it is, and start shooting on a street that doesn t seem like they might be on five minutes ago. the public information, everyone
that things are fully safe yet. it seems that police have some control of the situation, but things are still very fluid, and it doesn t appear that things are safe out there. we know home depot in odessa is a location where they believe at least one of the shooters if there are more than one has now gone, and is shooting. i want to bring in jonathan wacrow, a former secret service agent. jonathan from the latest information we have, this is still an active situation. can you take us inside how law enforcement would be navigating this situation right now. well, to shimon s point just a moment ago, this is a chaotic situation, and, you know, part of the reasoning around the chaos in the early moments and early reporting of the active shooter situation is we re now dealing with a new dynamic in the totality of active shooters is this mobile active shooter utilizing vehicles. this is the second time this year that we have seen a change or an increase in tactics around
shimon prokupecz with me. what have you learned since we last spoke? i think it s best to describe it s still very fluid and it s what you would imagine in this kind of situation, things very much still ongoing and i think authorities are still trying to get a handle on exactly what they re dealing with, who they re dealing with, why this happened and like you said, they are looking for this other vehicle, this toyota, this vehicle that we have been describing as a second vehicle. they have identified one of the vehicles they were looking for, which was a white postal van they believe was stolen and was used by the shooter and we re seeing all sorts of photos posted on twitter of cars just with bullet holes all over them, all along this stretch of road, cars turned sideways almost, as you probably, drivers trying to escape the gunfire, and just couldn t escape it. there are bullet holes through many of these vehicles, and it appears the shooters in this
multiple shooting locations but we are hoping to get some answers when this presser begins. again, expect it in the next few minutes. right now, we hope to hear these shooters have been arrested but we don t know just yet what the status is. we re also learning that atf is responding to these shootings, according to a tweet by atf dallas. we re getting reaction now coming from former texas congressman and 2020 candidate beto o rourke whose community of el paso just experienced a mass shooting earlier this month. here s what he tweeted our hearts with midland odessa and everyone in west texas who has to endure this again. more information is forthcoming but here s what we know. we need to end this epidemic. another 2020 candidate and fellow texan, julian castro tweeting heartbreaking news out of odessa and midland, texas, as police search for an active shooter at large. stay indoors and monitor news alerts and safety protocol. a lot of information coming into cnn. i want to go back to c
police at least at this point believe there are two shooters. makes this a very dynamic, different situation than we normally see in these kinds of shootings, and we also don t have a clear number yet on how many people have been injured. one thing is very clear is there are seven people shot, at least one state trooper has been injured, possibly shot, they believe, and now the hunt, it appears, is still on for suspects for shooters, out there. and keep in mind, this is in texas. obviously this is coming just within a month after the el paso shooting. it s going to be the same investigators, the texas rangers that have been out there investigating that case. they re going to be back here investigating and assisting in this investigation along with the fbi obviously and the atf. a lot of resources but i think right now, it s very clear that between the midland police department, the odessa police department, and the other local authorities there that it s a pretty chaotic situation that