Newspaper Capital Gazette. Police, Law Enforcement saying one individual in custody but theyre still saying it is an active shooter situation. Theyre making sure that there is no other shooter before they give the all clear. Way tonight bring back Josh Campbell, former fbi supervisory special agent. Josh, we have vivid descriptions from the Capital GazetteCrime Reporter phil davis talking about what it was like being in the newsroom hiding under his desk after his colleagues had been shot hearing the shooter reload. Thats right, jake. We hear from witnesses in these types of incidents. Heard from them before and never easy to hear. The panic, the chaos that ensued. Although workplaces prepare for these types of incidents, we have seen the uptick in number of active Shooter Training programs put on, nothing prepares you for the moment where something happens an now you have a flight or fight reaction. We talk about the fight or hide methodology thats being used and having to go through. Well hear a lot of those stories and we dont know what took place and the fact its a News Business means you have people collecting that information and hear about it an well continue to hear the details. One thing also interesting is looking at the response thats taking place right now, both from witnesses and obviously the police is theres a lot that goes into this type of training that we dont see and they work together, train together. We heard you mentioned earlier that one of the medical facilities indicated that they were receiving at least one patient. When these types of incidents go out, medical facilities are part of the response plan. They get the initial word we have a crisis situation. Be prepared to take casualties, take patients and, you know, appears as though we have a person transported. Well probably see more of that as the injuries or we hear about them and the resolved and one thing is when the police get to the point ready to brief the press and brief the public, hearing those additional details. But the focus is clearing the building. I want to bring in supervising producer eric joining us by phone. Tell us what youre seeing. Jake, the Media Presence here is quite impressive. I just drove here. Theres probably 60, 70, 80 Law Enforcement vehicles in the area. There are helicopters. This is a very, very popular area. This is where the annapolis mall is. Very popular. I just talked to Anne Arundel Police and say theyre still securing the building. They wont say anything more than that. They still have several buildings on lockdown. And they do not expect this to be casualty incident which tells us maybe only a few injured but thats all the details to give me, jake. And tell us about what else youre seeing in terms of individuals from the Capital Gazette, individuals who worked in the building, the building is not small. It houses other businesses besides Capital Gazette. If police are still securing the area as you note, this shooting i believe took place within the last hour, hour and a half. At least based on the tweets that i saw from the Capital Gazette intern who was the first one to alert the world of what was going on. What are individuals telling you about what happened . As i said, i just arrived on scene. This area is like a parking garage area to the mall and been totally cordoned off by Law Enforcement and very little activity here besides Law Enforcement. So, the police say around 2 30ish they got the initial call of an active shooter. They quickly got to the building. Theyre in the process of still securing it. Like i said, theyre not telling us much more than that. They have several buildings on lockdown. Theyre using the mall as a meeting location for families but other than that its a total cordoned off area with massive Law Enforcement presence. Thank you so much. I know youll talk to other individuals and try to bring us back more information as you can. I want to bring in cnns media reporter Brian Stelter on the phone. Brian, tell us about the newspaper, Capital Gazette. I saw a reporter earlier tweeting that he had grown up in the area and one time when he was a little boy drew a picture of his father and sent it in for fathers day and they ran it. Its that kind of Community Newspaper. Lets bring back Josh Campbell. Josh, obviously, theyre kor doaning off as many reporters as possible. Annapolis is an hour away from washington, d. C. So one assumes a lot of reporters from washington, d. C. And baltimore, two major areas in the country, are going to be there. The Capital Gazette owned by the Baltimore Sun newspaper and multiple wounded and fatalities. The shooter is alive according to what police seem to be suggesting. We have only heard of one individual taken to the hospital, though. Thats right. Well continue to wait for the details as far as what the casualties look like. Theres a difference of casualties and fatalities. We have careful there determining the extent of what took place there. Well get the details in short order. Jake, you know, we have talked about this far too often as we sat together covering the incidents is that Law Enforcement officers now have two audiences, two constituencies if you will to get information to. The first is the public. This is in the public interest. But also, to the family members of those who worked in this facility, who were there on that day. We have talked about this before. I remember from incidents like orlando and San Bernardino talking to family members of those impacted and this is that tough period of time where they do not know whats going on. Was their loved one unfortunately part of this incident . Were they able to get out . This is the most crushing for them trying to determine and its incumbent on officers to determine what theyre dealing with, have the process that goes on. Obviously, the company will be key in determining who should have been inside the building and making accountable everyone there and ensure that their safety is paramount. This is period of time where they have to do that and quickly because you have a lot of people out there that are simply wondering are their loved ones impacted . Lets listen in to the police officer. Get them to safety so were in evacuation mode right now so were trying to secure the building the best we can. Once its secure, once were 100 that that building is secure thats when we will be able to provide more information with the extent of injuries and suspect. We have injuries. We did have an active shooter situation inside that building. 888 bestgate road in annapolis. Again, we have injuries. I cant give the extent of those injuries at this point. We dont expect this even though its very early on to be a very or have major casualties or several hundred casualties so but we have injuries. I can confirm that. Ill get you as much information as possible. I dont want to give you inAccurate Information at this point. Thats the only reason i cant provide more. So yeah. Once the building is secure well give more information whether the suspect is in fact in custody, that building is secure and make sure we give everybody a quick briefing on the extent and how many injuries. At this point, a main message to get out to the public is avoid the area. We have a lot of Police Officers here. From our jurisdiction. We are thankful for other jurisdictions, anal lis city Police Department, maryland, everyone has come here to make sure we get as many people safe as quickly as possible and asking family and friends to meet at the annapolis mall. If you need to meet up with a friend or loved one inside that building, Reunification Center is set up inside the lord taylor in the mall. Respond there. We have officers there that will assist you. Meeting up with friends and family. So thats the biggest message to put out right now. Were doing our very best to get the building secure and we should have information for you very shortly. And as soon as that building is secure well be able to provide more information. We appreciate everybodys patience and doing everything that we can to get everybody out safe. Thank you. Lieutenant, can you tell us so that was from Anne Arundel County police, lieutenant Ryan Frashure talking about the status. Right now, at the shooting. As the Capital Gazette newspaper in annapolis, maryland. Evan perez, hes answering questions. Lets listen back in. Make sure theres no other people that are suspects or helped the individual and no type of bombs or anything inside that building so all those things we have to think about to make sure that people are safe inside that building. So again, number one priority is getting people from that building outside safely and reuniting them with their families. Once that building is secure, we can provide more information and the investigation will begin and well be able to get a lot more details. Lieutenant, you said you have injuries. How many . I cant confirm exactly how many. I know that we have injuries. That was first called in. So again, we dont anticipate this being some type of a mass major casualty with hundreds of injuries. But we have injuries. And so while were doing our best to make sure they receive care that need care and, you know, we are doing our very best to make sure everybody else is evacuated out of there. Were prioritizing. Capital gazette. In the newsroom or one of the doctors offices or what . I cant confirm an exact location inside that building but it was inside 888 bestgate which houses several types of businesses. I hope to have more information on that soon. I want to make sure that all the information we pass along is accurate with a serious incident and make sure that that information is accurate out to the public. Thank you, everybody. Hes released everything that he can right now. Well give you an update as soon as we can. Thank you guys. Just to recap. Thats lieutenant Ryan Frashure with Anne Arundel County police. The Capital Gazette, the Community Newspaper there, pardon me, just suffered a shooting. Lieutenant frashure said they believe theres one suspect and right now they are just as a precautionary measure searching the entire building. Lets bring in evan perez, the justice correspondent, reporter. The lieutenant said a number of times they dont expect it will be a major casualty situation. And he defined major in terms of there being several hundred injuries or casualties and not to say that there arent several dozen or even fatalities. Right, exactly. He was careful not to put any numbers on what exactly hes dealing with there, jake. But we are told multiple injuries and fatalities. At this point, obviously, not going to be i think what he is talking about is in a lot of shootings we have seen recently and dealt with a lot of these incidents around the country, we have seen dozens of people being taken out, mass casualty is what that is. In this case, appears to be a much smaller, much more contained situation as jessica reporting earlier. One of the reporters in that newsroom, the Crime Reporter in that newsroom is out on twitter saying that someone shot through the front door of the newsroom, of the newspaper. And there were people who were shot. So he doesnt know according to his twitter feed, he doesnt know whether anybody died but he knows that people were shot as a result of the attack there. We do know and i think the Public Information officer with the police did confirm theres somebody, at least somebody in custody. What theyre trying to make sure and this is something we underscore is theyre trying to make sure nobody else involved in this, whether theres a second person, any bombs he left behind in that newsroom or somewhere else in that building as a booby trap. At this point, i think we are going to have probably a little while before we have an all clear in the building that they know they have gotten every single corner searched and they know every Single Person there accounted for and then they can come out and tell us how many people were injured, whether or not these were fatalities that were suffered as a result of gunshots or perhaps somebody might have had a heart attack or Something Else that occurred but at this point, there are multiple people wounded who were casualties as a result of this. And there have been fatalities as a result of this. Fatalities plural your sources are saying. Correct. Not including the shooter in custody. It appears that person is in custody and is being interviewed by the investigators. Solute Ryan Frashure for the Anne Arundel County police with that information. I want to bring Josh Campbell back in. I would like to ask our producers if we could get Jessica Schneider prepared to read the phil davis tweets again in a second for people tuning in. Theyre descriptive and haunting and worth sharing. Josh campbell, after hearing the lieutenant it sounds like they want to take these last few minutes to make sure that there are no other suspects and fatalities and then have another press briefing to give all the information they can. Thats right. The role of the a Public Information officer is challenging. On one end, provide realtime information and ensure 100 accurate. I stood in his shoes. Public asking for information. You have to make sure that its accurate. One thing that was telling, he said the building isnt 100 cleared yet and guarantee that police arent going to say anything until they ensure no additional victims and threats so that is going to take time. Obviously, you have a number of people out there to know what happened. The public, but also. The victim family members, those that worked at the facility. We can expect Law Enforcement to be very conservative with the information that theyre providing at the outset. Next phase we move to is that investigation. Now that we have heard that the person is taken into custody, thiss a wealth of information and part of that longterm information. All right. We have senator Chris Van Hollen of maryland standing by on the phone. Senator, as you listen in, take a listen to Jessica Schneider to read some tweets from the courts and Crime Reporter phil davis who works for the Capital Gazette whos thankfully okay. He tweeted a couple things to describe the scene and i want to get your reaction. Jessica, if you could read those tweets for us. Absolutely, jake. These are especially chilling tweets. Two tweets from this court and Crime Reporter at Capital Gazette, phil davis. He describes what was happening. First tweet says, gunman shot through the glass door to the office. And opened fire on multiple employees. Cant say much more and dont want to declare anyone dead but its bad. The next tweet, he reflects a little bit more saying theres nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while youre under your desk and then hear the gunman reload. We havent seen anymore tweets but obviously a chilling and terrifying scene as described by this reporter for the Capital Gazette while he was in the newsroom as this gunman opened fire. We are monitoring it to see if anymore tweets come out for more information and awaiting more information of Law Enforcement. Very few words and yet very chilling, as well. Jake . Haunting. Thank you, jessica. I want to bring senator Chris Van Hollen democrat of maryland in. What can you tell us . Have you been briefed . Do you know anything more about the status of the victims . How are people doing . Jake, we have reached out to the Law Enforcement folks. Understandably on the scene and very rapidly developing situation. We dont have more information. Anymore information than you already been reporting. I do know the reporter, phil davis, whos been tweeting. You just cited his tweets. He is a great reporter. He does have the sort of crime beat and many other beats and so i think thats the most timely information we of course have out of this awful, awful situation. This is part of an Office Building, the Capital Gazette offices are on the first floor. I have been there. They have the same kind of layout. Many news offices do. Very sort of open setting. So our hearts and prayers go out to everybody. Weve got to find a way to end the violence. Another hopeful tweet from phil davis was that the editor of the gazette, rick hudsel is fine. I only know thats what phil davis reported. And or another reporter at the gazette sent out. We are getting our information at this point. From the tweets as we try to confirm the details with Law Enforcement. Do you know anything about what manner of firearm was used, senator . I do