investigators will go in and then process putting the investigation together. did the shooter appear to be known to the police or capital gazette employees? anything to tell us about right now we can t confirm exactly where the shooting occurred throughout that building. the capital gazette building is inside that building along with many other businesses and doctor s offices. do you have any numbers on casualties? not at this point. where did you apprehend the suspect? the officers were on the scene very quickly, 60 seconds or a minute and a half. they did engage the suspect and taken into custody. occurred very quickly. just for everybody, that s the acting chief william cramph and this is mayor gavin buckley. how are you doing? so the city sends its love and thoughtings for all the families affected by this, this horrible event. i want to commend our first
people. as far as the fatalities, you heard the acting chief there say that there were five fatalities. we re told there s additional injuries, some of these range from simple trauma, people there and ran out. and some of the people treated for that. there are people who had injuries from the glass, the flying gloo flying glass and perhaps even shrapnel. at least within of the people appears to be fairly serious injury. at this point, appears to be contained to just those people. five fatalities and additional people being treated at a local hospital there because of a range of injuries, again. ranging from trauma to actual injuries from perhaps the incident, flying glass and shrapnel and so on. the suspect we only know of one, the police believe there s only one but that the point he s not cooperating with the investigation. they don t know his name.
families and i went to thank the law enforcement professionals who responded, our emergency response team was did an incredible job. they re still doing the job right now and responded within 60 seconds, i want do give serious praise to anne arundel county and the city of annapolis for their response and we were here with the state agencies to back them up. it s a tragic situation. we can t we don t have all the information yet an we can t give all the information yet. it s an investigation but we have had several fatalities and several people that are in the hospital and we ll just leave it to the professionals to continue their investigation. lieutenant, i know you said it s early but can you talk is it more than two? can you tell us at least the kind of numbers you know of? i ll introduce or acting
chief of police william cramph five fatalities and several others gravely injured. it is still an active crime scene. the acting chief said that the qtr, the quick response time and the s.w.a.t. team still in the building and searching to make sure there s no other shooters. shocking news. five individuals shot apparently in this newsroom. we were also told by law enforcement that police i m not sure i assume it s county police. on the scene within a minute, minute and a half of the shooting being called in. cnn s brian todd was at the press conference and joins us now live from annapolis. brian, five fatalities may not be hundreds and hundreds of fatalities but it is a shocking number of innocent people killed
chief who s answer some questions. but again, please, it ll be brief. we want to make sure the information is accurate. there s a lot of people involved here and make sure that information is accurate and don t want to say anything to ruin the investigation. the suspect is interviewed by detectives. but again, i ll introduce our acting chief william crampf. good afternoon. you can see this is a fluid scene. you can see that we have over ten plus allied agencies assisting. the investigation has just started so as ryan has said we ll be quite a while determining what occurred, why it occurred and how it occurred. but as the governor mentioned, we were here quickly. we came in to the building very quickly. we received a call as an active shooter. we do have fatalities and we do have serious injuries. welso have many, many