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Started flooding towards the area, the corner of college and 19th and later college and woodruff. >> could you see the area? or could you just see the area that police were responding to and where they were staging? >> we could see the area on the corner. i think it happened more towards the front of the building but we saw the area they ended up cordoning off and saw all the cops and the fire trucks and ambulances all rushing towards that area. >> it was -- happened very quickly that you receiv...

Obviously struck me as being what looked like maybe someone of student age, being led out in handcuffs. you dont want to read too much into it, as deb very well cautioned. what do you see there? >> i think deb is probably right on. if that was a suspect you would have a lot more law enforcement around him. a lot of times what will happen is in certain situations, when they clear an area, they will go ahead and cuff somebody until they can actually clear that specific individual person. now, some...

Notified about all academic classes are being canceled for the remainder of the day. the campus technically is open, however, multiple buildings are now closed in that area where all this activity is going on. thats 19th avenue, 140 west and the mcquig building, the watts building as well. still very active but we can tell you that according to local media reports, at least one suspect has been killed. obviously that raises the question, are they looking for others. that appears to be the case. ...

Officials, are non-life threatening. we dont know who the suspect is. the suspect gunned down by a police officer. the suspect is deceased. we have been told that, and at this point in time, the lockdown situation that the university was under has now been lifted, although classes cancelled for the rest of the day there at ohio state university. this was a very dramatic scene, and to hear students who are on campus, many of them in class when this happened. the first notice many got, for a few, ...

With a code. we felt very safe. later, maybe 30, 45 minutes after the incident someone stepped outside to go to the bathroom and there were guards in the hallway that told them to get back in the room and close the door. so i dont know where they were stationed. maybe just because we were close when, you know, we in an adjacent building. maybe thats why they were there, but -- >> anthony, thank you so much as were learning from federal, a federal source that the attacker at ohio state university...

Its too soon to tell. obviously that is a huge question that everybody wants to know, because often times they take their own lives. we will see. we do know the s.w.a.t. team was clearing that building so if there was an encounter, hopefully we will know that soon. >> thank you so much. deb working her sources, bringing us as we get more breaking news. we do know as deb just reported from local media, they are reporting that one suspect is dead on ohio state universitys campus. unclear if that m...

Right? those shots reported could have just been from police, the police officer firing at him? >> exactly. if the witnesses that saw him wielding the machete or other large knife called 911, police get the call and respond, still at the scene with that knife and in the process of possibly stabbing or slashing people, then, yes, the police would shoot, and witnesses outside of the building had heard shots fired didnt know if it was a shooter who was a bad guy or the police doing the shooting. >>...

Gunshots. you heard something happening before you even saw an alert. >> yes. i remember my roommate saying he heard something he thought was gunshots. then we heard the police come. then we believe we heard the gunshots before the alert came. we cant confirm that but we believe we heard it. >> as you have been looking outside your window, what can you see? can you see watts hall? can you see the parking garage? >> i can see watts hall from my dorm but i cant -- like theres a smaller dorm in fro...

Its like right now? >> from where we are, its pretty calm. all the streets are blocked off. you cant see a lot of commotion on this end of the building. but down the street, the entire parking garage is surrounded by s.w.a.t. team and theres a helicopter, theres actually quite a few helicopters that are circling around the campus. and so we have just been on lockdown for the past hour or so and waiting to hear more. >> you have received no other updates yet from the campus, from the text message...