After campus without incident. he was taken into custody about an hour after he left stoneman douglas, after he committed this horrific, homicidal, detestable act. the fbi and our crime scene people will begin processing this horrific scene as soon as the buildings are cleared. the sheriff says the suspect is not a current student but is believed to be a former student. current students tell cnn there was a lot of confusion as the shooting began. they say a fire alarm went off. students started to leave the school fairly deliberately as if evacuating for a fire alarm. then students and teachers realized it was not a fire alarm and they started acting franticly. some kids ran outside. some took shelter in a nearby walmart. here are some accounts from witnesses. we heard three gunshots and all ran inside. there s two rooms in the theatre room. i went inside one of them. five minutes later our teacher said she wanted everyone in the
Not including the suspect, three stable. what kind of wounds? out of respect for our patients, we are not going to disclose that information. are these all gunshot victims? unfortunately we just lost that transmission. but i think we are going to try to reconnect. listen. that s why we wanted to clarify that. so eight victims, those were all gunshot wounds, correct? that is correct. can you elaborate on ages of the patieninjuries of the patci? again, out of respect to the families we can t talk about that. we know you were in lock down. can you describe for us as a mass casualty incident, what was it like inside as patients were coming here after the shooting?
Responsibility of treating these people and, you know, ensuring the best outcome they can have, i mean, how does that affect you all, just as human beings? well, we do this every day. so what we saw today we have penetrating trauma, nonpenetrating trauma, level two trauma center, that s what we do every day. so fortunately for everybody we are located close to the high school where the shooting happened so forth nately for everybody they brought the patients to our hospital and we were able to do a great job to do the right thing. the suspect was brought here, i know you can t say much about his medical condition or whatever. but for a lot of people at home, they might be surprised that the suspect was being brought here. how do you kick in the hippocratic oath and do your job knowing what this guy was accused of doing? every patient that comes in gets treated as patient and we
We also know that he was an expelled student with disciplinary problems. the other thing because we have been asking how did he get inside the building. the sheriff said the shooting started outside. i think that s what i heard him say. that kind of explains some information about how he was able to get inside the school and whether or not anyone there encountered him, any police officers or security in the building. that i guess we re still waiting to learn. let me get phil s reaction to this news, the latest briefing from the broward county sheriff. let me pick up on something about shootings outside, about the number of victims, the size of the magazine, the fact that he had an ar-15. this isn t someone, in my judgment, who went in with a specific grievance against an individual. i m going to wager he didn t even know everybody he killed. i step back and say, okay, he went in with a general grievance that he s been building over time, a grievance about what happened at the schoo
The sheriff says he had attended that high school in the past but was not a current student. what s the latest, brian? new information coming into the situation room at this hour. law enforcement officials telling cnn there are at least two people dead from the shooting at douglas high school. of course that number could change. the broward county sheriff says they transported at least 14 victims to local hospitals. the mayor of broward county says there could be at least 17 sent to hospitals. the shooting, according to officials, occurred shortly before afternoon dismissal. douglas high school has roughly 3,000 students and is located north of miami. county sheriff scott israel says the suspect is now in custody. as wolf mentioned, we believe that s the suspect being transported in that vehicle you see there. aerial footage from earlier today showed a man who law enforcement officials say was the suspect being placed inside a police vehicle. here s the sheriff discussing how the sus