to us, i m so grateful for you and all that you shared, you re going to get through this, then. think you. ben finklestein, thank you so much, i want to bring in frank for clues, the charles coleman. jim kavanaugh. frank, just hearing that young man s voice. we re just talking, about this is an active shooter situation, they re gonna find this guy move on. how did these kids move on? you are that young boy, this changes everything, he s gonna graduate the first week of, may and his world s been turned upside down. like so many other kids in this country. you know stephanie, i think that fortunately the sad state of where we are today, with regard to gun violence, as we don t ever really move on, but rather we learn to manage, victims, and those traumatized
michigan. how far is that from east lansing? about 70 miles. school is going to be canceled for the next few days. when you can, are you hoping to go home and sue your family? yeah,. it felt like, everything was going great, until it happened, and i really just don t know. i don t know how to process it. ben, i m so sorry, you said you are in a meeting, what were you working? on said everything was going, great what were you doing tonight before this news, before this tragedy struck. so i was working in a meeting with.
i literally freaked out, i started messaging people. to see their okay, do you live alone ben? no, i have a roommate who s currently on a higher floor the building with a friend of ours. to the best of your knowledge is a building block down and then there apartments? to the best my knowledge, yeah. have you spoken to either friends, teachers, colleagues, anyone you know, are they safe. . have you spoken to any of your professors yet? how is a school communicating with you .
work. so that s the strength of these things. never really have enough officers, we really can t have too many officers. you just have to have the commanders that understand how to leverage all these people to their advantage. you get everybody interviewed, you can go and answer every call, because of all these officers and agents available to you. so that s what it takes, it takes strong leadership to make it happen, and like frank said and maybe we can get something to happen tonight, soon, so we can get this guy app upended, steph? we are grateful for them massive on forsman present it s just that when we send our kids to college we don t think we re sending them into world war ii scenario. gentlemen, please stay with, us we re gonna be hateful law enforcement officers a minutes from now. but i want to bring in ben finklestein. he s a senior michigan state university, sheltering in his apartment, just off campus in michigan state. he joins us now, on the phone.