of us have seen police officers and sheriff s deputies do all the time. presumably he is talking with dispatch with the sheriff s department as news of what first were believed to be fire crackers and now is believed to be gunfire, active shooter gunfire from somewhere on campus is unfolding. and of course 17 people are being shot and killed. and 17 others are being shot and wounded. most of which happen inside billing 12. the freshman building, which we can t really discern whether this is the building here i believe the building in question is out of the frame right now. but the point of the video and the point of the sheriff when he launched this internal investigation three weeks ago. when he started throwing the school resource officer under the bus, was because you see on the video peterson, right there, he is outside, trying to figure out what s going on, where are thee shots if they are shots. it turns into a bit of a scramble and hyper alert
mall. reporter: well, fred, as you said people are obviously very surprised at what happened at this place. and one of our producers here said he was on his way to come and have lunch here all the time. he tells us that s there s usually a police car parked between the j.c. penny and the sears. there are often police officers inside the mall. so it s yes, it is very safe. as you mentioned people did shelter in place right away. we have spoken to a number of people inside the mall i talked to one woman who heard thee shots. another heard eight to ten shots, but as soon as all of these people heard shots they immediately ran in to stores, to shelter in place. some obviously are still inside.