justice correspondent pete w williams, and pete, why would the fbi be involved here? at the request of the local police, and they are called in to provide two types of assistance according to the officials. one is to go through the crime scene and reconstruct what is going on, and that is critical for the police in building a criminal case against this student, and secondly, the provide counselling for victims, a and that is another resource that the fbi has available, and so those are the two things that they are doing, and obviously a local crime and not a federal crime, and so that the fbi is there to simply provide assistan assistance. and in terms of the motive of what led to this, we have not heard anything about that, and there are no firm details that have reached the officials here about the motives, and they waiting to find out with the rest of us as is so often with the cases of violence in the school, whether it was a student who was bullied or whether something else set
a few out there that the school principal had some type of interaction or confrontation with the suspect, and what have you heard about that? i believe it is the vice principal who may have tackled the suspect to try to help to get him under kcontrol, and a also an adult security guard stabbed in the stomach at some point in the incident. and so this school has a security guard at least one that we know of, and what about the metal detectors and what is the security situation at the school that you know of? as far as i know, the county spokesman has said that there were no metal detectors and the parents and the students have told me that there were no metal detectors, but one parent did say that updated security doors have been responded recently, so that a person coming in would have to buzz into the office, but a student coming in would not have to do that in the morning. and thank you so much for the details that you have been able to obtain while on the ground there, and t
and so probably pulling the fire alarm helped to evacuate the school, and good thing that happened. and so now, there were ambulances lined up to transport victims to the hospital. we mentioned that three students in the o.r., and many of the injured are scattered between four hospitals, but with we were getting the information from forbes hospital, and many of those according to the hospital spokespesh person are being treated for stab wounds to the abdomen. this is outside of pittsburgh, and it is home to 1,200 students at the high school, and joining us by the scene is ranetta who is there at westmoreland on the scene, and what are you learning about how a female student jumped into action and helped her friend by applying pressure, and friend who is right now in
the operating room. yes, i heard it from the witnesses and the parents that some people may have done some heroic acts today. the vice principal may have helped to quell the suspect and get him under control, and under arrest, and like you said, some other people may have saved some of their friends lives today. and give us a time line today of when the first reports came in, and to where we are right now. 7:13 a.m. was the first call to westmoreland 911, and it is a murrysville school police officer who called it in. and ambulance and police began to arriving and i spoke to one witness who was dropping his son off at the time, and he said strains of students running out of the school, and the security guards herding them down to the field nearby, a football field, and just updated at noon by the
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