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las vegas, we are getting scant evidence of how much shooting was going on. the suspected shooter has been, quoting police officials, located and is now deceased. we don t know the number of victims, another that it is multiple victims. this occurred an hour ago, first report of shots being fired at beam hall, the elite business center. this is miles from one of the worst mass shootings at the music 91 music festival. this does not look anything like that and we pray it doesn t approach that. it occurs a little more than a month after the attack at lewiston, maine, that took 18 lives. let s go to jonathan hunt with the latest, what he is learning and what we can say about the casualties and what they are finding out. jonathan. jonathan: 3:04 east coast time and 12:04 we got word from metro police department there was active shooter on campus of university of nevada las vegas in the heart of the city of vegas, couple of blocks from mgm grand and off the strip. police s ....
Who did they speak to? was it family members. friends, coworkers, and really hone in on why this occurred and then again, how to prevent this in the future. so chief ramsey, the police tweeted out a photo of the suspect. and just a short time later, there was an alert citizen who gave the police a tip, and that led directly to him. and from what we know, he took his own life. there was no altercation with the police. i saw the police really thanking the public for doing this. how significant was that tip? it was very significant. the police response in this case was very good. multiple jurisdictions responded very, very quickly. they did a thorough search of buildings and campus grounds. once they got information from a video of the individual, a photo of the individual, they got it out quickly to the public. again, they really, really, i ....
If someone has access to weapons. you know, weapons, guns, long guns. handguns, they re all the common denominator in these mass attacks. we have to get ahead of that and look at what the warning signs are. what else, jonathan, will police be digging through besides the things we have already heard about? will they be interviewing family members, digging through social media? what are some of the other examples of things they re going to be doing? absolutely. they are going to absolutely do that. they re going to look at everything that is connected to this suspect. you know, who did they talk to? were they influenced? did they express what s known as concerning communication before this event? secret service has done numerous studies by the national threat assessment center. in a majority of mass attacks, the perpetrator actually telegraphed through concerning communications that there was some type of grievance, that they were going to engage in some type of violent act. ....
Violence planned, obviously. you know, we ll never know exactly what it is that he had planned. but i think just based on what he did at michigan state, it s pretty safe to assume that more people would have died had he not taken his own life, had police not been able to locate him, and really cause him to take his own life. so you know, again, this is an example of an individual who should not have access to firearms. there are millions of people in this country, millions of firearms. most people are responsible gun owners, but guns still fall into the hands of the wrong people. we just refuse as a society to sit down and talk about it and try to come up with something that won t be 100% effective, but it will be better than it is now. 67 already this year. it s only the 14th of february. i can almost guarantee you that that number will be in the hundreds before the year is out, unfortunately. because we just won t do anything, and it s just going to continue and go on and on and ....
That i was going to die. i was so scared. i will never forget the screams of my classmates. they were screaming in pain for help. police say the 43-year-old anthony mcrae then fled to another building where he shot another student to death. we re told he had no ties to the school. and he killed himself after a caller s tip led police directly to him. the campus is shattered. all eight victims were msu students. and we just learned two of their names. sophomore brian frazer and uni. alexander verner were killed. the five students who survivored are still in the hospital. the doctor in charge of their care and state leaders overcome with emotion. all five individuals remain in critical condition this morning. we received a lot of texts that were just, you know, i m on my way. just within people showing up, where do you need me? parents across michigan were ....