kept walking. mark, there s, again, a student there. describing who he believes the shooter was, and again at this point we are not naming the 17-year-old, although we are acutely aware that the name is out there on social media. based on that description there, mark, what can we glean from that, if anything? first i d like to say that our prayers go out to the families and victims of this terrible epidemic, an epidemic of shootings we ve had even this year. the description of the actor is consistent with other actors being a loner. dressing with the trench coat. all kinds of signals apparently missed in this particular incident. there have been reports already there were social media postings by him indicating the possibility or threats of some kind of active violence. we should note, nbc news has
aragon, and, rose, i know you re on the ground there in santa fe. i want to play a piece of sound here for our viewers and listeners. this is angie martinez. ang hie has a daughter there at the school. this is angie talking about her drill that apparently happened at this particular high school recently. play the sound and talk to you on the other side. here s that mother. we ve had a drill before, and it winded up being a fake drill. apparently there was some student that was posting up on social media that there was, that thehe was going to shoot u the school. had cap add few months ago. we reported it to authorities. we reported it to the school. they said they were on it, it was being investigated and then the following day, it happened, and winded up being a fake drill because i guess it was
student at the high school and a few doors down from where i guess the shooting started. she said she heard several loud booms and a handful of other classmates and she hid in the classroom until officers came to escort them out of the building. another student i talked to, dakota schraeder, a tenth grader, actually outside of the building with the other evacuated students when they heard the booms from outside. and then she said everything kind of started scattering. she ran for the forest with a couple of her classmates until her mom came to pick her up and she was really visibly shaken, tears in her eyes. again, i can t stress enough how, you know, how shocked and pained these kids were, but they really i mean, the fact that they were articulate. they were calm in giving us the information. just i am extraordinarily impressed by them. nick powell with the houston
person? he s been identified. we believe he is not 17. that he is older than 17. he s and whether he s a current student or not, i don t know, but, you know to your point. what was his role in this? we don t know the answer to that yet. do we know anything about his relationship with the 17-year-old student suspect? no, we don t. okay. our justice correspondent pete williams continuing to talk to sources and provide new information. we now have a name of the gunman. a name we will not be using add knaussham he -of- ad nauseam. student athlete at one point at this school. according to pete he was a member of the football team as well. pete also updating the total number of dead at this point. we know that there are, according to sources nine
devices that they had made? so they re naturally going to search locations connected with the two suspects they have. the 17-year-old male whose name we re now going to report. we ve held off on this, but the 17-year-old we re told by a large number of local and federal officials is demetrios p poddurksus. currently a student, not sure whether still an athlete. certainly a student. at one time a member of the football team. whether he is still or not i don t know that for sure but we ve been looking at the last couple of hours at social media connected to him and nothing stands out to us nor, according to the federal officials i ve talked to, does it to them that would indicate a possible motive here. there s no expressed interest, for example, in any kind of radical ideology, no interest in