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They can justify it was not two shooters, and thats the reason we see the police doing the sweep of the area, the entire area, and the school. so they are going to utilize the statements from the individual students as to what they saw. unfortunately, in these types of situation, theres so much pandemonium, folks just running all over the place, theres so much chaos, sometimes the information can become a bit -- but at the same time, the police are going to still take all of that information and...

Students had gathered that a man stood up, assuming to be one of the students, who attended high school here and started shooting. the parents have reacted, as you can imagine, rushing to the high school. getting text messages from their own kids and phone calls as we work through all this. heather childers has been talking with folks on the ground there. new information with the sheriffs department, is that right, heather? >> reporter: yes, bill. i just hung up the phone from the sheriffs depar...

Classrooms and lock those doors. it is a horrific situation for the students and parents. bill: heather, did the sheriffs department talk about what the principal is reporting inside that school? >> reporter: no. only to try to reassure the parents that everything is under control at this time. there was a lot, he said there was, a lot of misinformation is going out. he just wanted to confirm that in fact there were some students injured. it was in fact a shooting. one suspect and the suspect in...

Sent from, who he was communicating with, if in fact any of the stuff was related or anybody else he had conversation with, be it friends, family neighbors. these are folks you want to be out interviewing right now. that is another reason, bill, why you have so many different agencies involved. bill: rod, thank you so much. back to local coverage, wjw screen left, woio both out of cleveland, ohio, on scene. >> i think in some cases when schools get these it kind of stresses out the parents and y...

From the different agencies. they got the call, too. they got the call, there was a man in the -- with a gun in the building and received a call as an active shooter. any time law enforcement gets a call of active shooter theres a multi-agency response to that situation, including the february and alcohol, tobacco and firearms agency and the city of chardon and geauga county. geauga county will be the lead in this investigation. a mass source went out to the students and reverse 911 went to the ...

As if the sheriffs office wanted to make clear to our reporter, heather childers, they feel the situation is stable right now. theyre not searching for a second person at this point. >> correct. thats our understanding as well. martha: all right, james, you know, we appreciate you being with us this morning. i know you broke this news and you did it cautiously and judiciously because these are very frightening situations for all families involved who have children at this school. thank you very ...

Situation. you have all the families being reunited. except for four families, that reunion is happening at the hospital where three children are said to be in critical condition and one in stable condition of these high school students. a terrifying morning for these families and a lot of questions out there about this gunman who one girl reported watching him run down the hallway, chasing another student with a gun to try to shoot him down. a terrifying, terrifying morning at chardon high scho...

A gunman at a cafeteria. by what we can tell at this point it appears there was definitely one shooter and perhaps one come is police. although shane french on the phone with us moments ago a reporter on the scene scene saying that person was running down the street and apprehended by the police. there is every reason to run away from the location and possible that person was not involved. bill, when you look at this kind of situation, the next question you ask after the condition of these stude...

Mistakes that were made or, as they say, the mistakes of the few. this was a choreographed event, and you just read the p-4, including general mcchrystal. when you jump over a homicide investigation that was falsified and then you want to debate what happened to my son, i find that difficult. they dont mind doing it because they just want to say it was friendly fire. this was an accident. but the scenario that they painted for us several times is just ridiculous, and it is still their scenario, ...

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