we're following the breaking news in chardon, ohio. a suspect is in custody. the investigation is unfolding. here's the news conference that's happening right now. >> and rapidly. yesterday's event, as a result of that training and practice, if you would, law enforcement was quickly placed inside the school upon arrival. and we believe that that helped to lessen the tragedy that occurred. unfortunately, much had occurred prior to law enforcement's arrival. i'd like to bring joe bernance, chardon's school superintendent to speak. >> first of all, i'd like to thank our law enforcement for working with us so diligently over the last couple of hours. noejs, our sympathy goes out to the five victims in the case, there's not a lot you can say when you are responsible for the safety of 3100 kids, other than the fact that we're going to do the best we can to make sure our schools continue to be safe and continue to work with law enforceme enforcement. we have grief counselors available at our middle school and we've organized a candlelight vigil at st. mary church tomorrow night across the street at 7:00. we'll have counselors available for, obviously, for the victims and their families. we have school personnel available. >> all right. it looks like we lost that connection with that news conference. we'll try to re-establish it and see what's going on right now it looks like that -- actually, i think we got it back. >> the immediate vicinity where the incident took place, as well as to our teaching staff, our professional staff, bus drivers, et cetera. so the next couple of days we'll be focusing heavy-duty on our grief counseling and then obviously, subsequent sessions after that. classes will be cancelled for the entire chardon schools tomorrow. there will be no students in attendance and i'm asking our teachers and faculty and all support staff, with the exception of about five maintenance people, in case we need access to the buildings, we want them to stay home and spend some time reflecting on family. i hope every parent, if you haven't hugged or kissed your kid in the last couple of days, take that time. thank you. and, again, it's a sad day for us here at chardon schools. i'll introduce our police chief and good friend of mine, tim mckenna. >> i'm the police chief here in chardon, ohio. at 07:38 this morning our first 911 call came in. shots fired at chardon high school. 151 chardon avenue. the units on as well as myself and numerous other law enforcement agenciless responded to the scene. information received upon my arrival was that the shooter had left the building. at that point, our team went right in the door, 12 guys, got in and started assisting with the injured students. i want to assure the chardon community and the neighboring communities, we are safe. we've done diligent work up to this point and our work is not done, okay? i do want to give the news media here an update. currently we have one deceased student. his name is dan parmertor. the two other students life-flighted to cleveland-metro are in critical. the two students ground transported to hillcrest trauma center, cleveland clinic. one is stable and one is serious. no names. obviously, our subject that we've made an arrest on, he's a juvenile and until that's adjudicated in the proper court, no name release on that. but that's all i have to say at this time. i want -- my deep heart goes out to the families of the five victims, not only to them, but to our whole community. and, folks, bear with us. we have a lot of homework to do yet. this investigation is very -- going to be very long. and i thank you. >> there's been a lot of inquiries pertaining to the 911 tapes. it's been decided, no 911 tapes will be released today. there's a large volume of them that we need to go through. as soon as it's at all reasonably possible we'll make those available to the media. i want to thank the media for their help and their patience in helping us get through this tough day. and at this time i want to introduce a grief counselor from rabun wood mental health center. >> this is the mental health center here and i just wanted to provide a little bit of information about the response to this event for those who have been affected by it. first of all, i want to say to those who may be listening to me that there is no normal response to this kind of event. some will seem to handle it in stride. others will be very distraught. and it's all within normal limits. what we'd like to say to you is that it is our opinion that it's best for you to talk about and deal with these events as soon as you can after the event and thereby, reduce the long-term impact of this terrible tragedy. i wanted to point out that the response by the professional community has been enormous. in addition to people that we have here from my agency, the other county agencies are here. the recovery, family pride and as well as many agencies from around northeast ohio. recovery resources, beach brook and bellfair. i had a call this afternoon from university hospitals and they've offered to help with whatever is needed. so i want to say to all those that are affected. there are plenty of expert professionals to help you deal with this situation. please take advantage of it. the last thing, some will find that this sort of event is apparently, taken in stride at first and long after the uproar over the situation has died down, begin to suffer. we will be there next week, next month or next year. please call us and ask to speak to someone if you find emotions or depression or anxiety coming up in relation to this -- or any event -- but finally, two last things. i know the schedule is kind of being built as we go along. there is grief counseling here until 7:00 p.m., i believe, and as long as necessary, of course. we'll be back at schools tomorrow at 10:00 and at 4:00 p.m. and then in the schools later in the week. i would like to mention to the residents here, in the front of the phonebook is a number called "the cope line" 440-285-5665. we answer it 24 hours a day and have professional staff around the clock and are available to respond. thank you. >> again, i'd like to mention the phone number to get on the mailing list for our e-mails, for your updates and the press releases. 440-279-2009, extension 4. that will get you to our records department. we want a phone number. we want an e-mail address and a name. and then as press releases are provided by the chardon pd, we'll be more than happy to disseminate them out. again, we'll be here tomorrow, 11:00 a.m. in this parking lot. your vehicles, more than welcome. the school is opened this parking lot up here for your vehicles. i want to thank you. >> let's go to ted roland, he's on the scene in chardon, ohio, just outside of cleveland. ted, pick up the story. walk us through what what happened earlier this morning at the school? >> wolf, at 7:30 a.m. like the chief of police just articulated that's when the first 911 call came in and that's just after the shooting begrand. apparently, according to eyewitnesses, this individual, a student, apparently at the school, stood up from a cafeteria table and started shooting. at that point, as we know, five people were injured. a teacher, who was monitoring the study hall scenario in the cafeteria which apparently takes place before school each day, immediately reacted and chased the student out of the school. off of school grounds. at that point, they were able to deal with the injured. obviously, we know that there are four still injured and unfortunately, one individual has died, daniel par menner the. he was one of the students airlifted to cleveland. three of five went to cleveland and the other two are hospitalized here. that statement says in part -- we're shocked by this senseless tragedy. danny was a bright young boy who had a bright future ahead of him. the family is torn by this loss. we ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time. another thing we can tell you right now, wolf, is that the atf and fbi are helping out with the local sheriff's department and local police with this investigation and we have some video that we just shot, just a few hours ago at the suspect's home. it is clear that they're going through that. clearly, they issued a search warrant and got a search warrant and they're going through the home there and this is still in the initial stages of the investigation. the chief of police just said that in his press conference. but they are confident at this point that the suspect did act alone. they did recover a handgun and it's been turned over to the atf to analyze but at this point, again, they believe that this is a lone gunman. one person did act alone. i also had the opportunity to talk to a family member of one of other injured people and he told me that his relative is out of surgery and they have been told that he's expected to survive. so, good news on that front. wolf? >> and as you know, the suspect being, himself, a student, do we know anything about this individual? >> only what -- students around here say that the one individual said that he used to be friends with him in elementary school. -- being a quiet individual. getting a lot of conflicting reports, too, about certain social networking communications that he may have had in the days and day prior to the shooting. we're still trying to organize that and iron out specifically, whether or not he did communicate over twitter and/or facebook. this individual is in custody and he, apparently, gave up without any problem to folks outside the school. he's being identified as t.j. lane. that's from a witness who talked to the cleveland oh of everyone we talked to outside the school seems to corroborate that that that's, indeed, the identity of the suspect. >> ted rowlands will stay on the story. what else are we picking up? >> wolf, we'll tell you moments after several parents dropped their children off at school they began to get frantic calls from several students in the building saying a gunman was on the loose and he was shooting at some of the teenagers. they're not releasing 911 calls. we have the dispatch calls that came in early. listen -- >> sir, we have three students down in the cafeteria at this time. we still don't know where the shooter is. >> 10-4. >> attention, chardon rescue, we have an active shooter at the high school. repeat, active gunshots at the high school. >> we're in route. >> and, wolf, police are investigating the possibility that, in fact, the gunman may have targeted a specific table inside the cafeteria. a group of teens, all sitting together, early in the morning. all of them about to head to vocational classes. one of them, nate muller was friends with the alleged gunman. he was grazed in the ear when he spoke to reporters he was clearly in shock. he was clearly processing the information. but, listen to these details. >> we were at the table right next to him. he was win three feet of us. and three of the victims were at my table as well. out of five people. nate muelle. >> has this sunk into you yet? >> no. it's pretty fake to me, still. it all feels like a movie. tomorrow, ask me. i'm sure tomorrow i'll be devastated. >> did you see the gun first or hear the shots? >> he took one shot. he didn't say anything the entire time. he took one shot and that's when we looked to see what was happening. it sounded like a firecracker, almost. and at that point, i looked back and i saw him shoot. which hit one of my other friends. i was sitting at the table with us and i was turning around, that's when he hit me. and i had -- >> so you're at the table. how many kids are at the table? >> five. four at the table including me. and then one standing next to the table. >> did the gunman just walk in or had he been -- >> he had been sitting at the table behind us after everybody left. i assume he was sitting with. and gone to class. and we were just talking like a normal day. and then we heard the first shot and that's when it all started. >> and this teenager, nick mueller, his ear was grazed miraculously escaping death. he says the group he was sitting with, one of the teens had apparently, started dating the ex-girlfriend of the alleged shooter. that's under the investigation as a possible motive. you heard ted rowlands talk about twitter and facebook. some students say they saw pictures posted by the alleged gunman. in one of the pictures he's holding two guns. in another picture he's apparently, holding up a warning sign, alerting the school massacre. all of that right now, under investigation. so fluid, as you know, wolf, that they are piecing together the details right now. everyone in shock. everyone devastated. especially, one of the five didn't survive. >> stay with me. we have one of the students at the school on the phone right now. neil thomas. neil, where were you when all of this was happening this morning? >> i was in the -- my spanish class down the hall. >> what did you hear? what did you see? >> well, you know, i was in my class. i didn't hear the gunshots. what i heard -- i heard and i saw the kids running down the hall screaming and shortly after the kids ran down the hall screaming i heard on the announcements, the principal say we're going into lockdown. >> and so what did that mean when he said you're going into lockdown? what did you do and the other students? >> well, you know, we rehearsed that, the drills. the drills -- the teacher goes over to lock the door. and, you know, we're supposed to be quiet and go over to a wall where they cannot see in through the door. so if you look into the door, you cannot see anyone in the class. >> did you think that this was for real? or just an exercise or a drill? >> well, at first, you know, i thought it was a drill, but you can tell by the intensity in the principal's voice it didn't seem right. it wasn't just a normal drill. >> do you -- let me just ask you if you knew the suspect, the individual who's now been picked up and is being questioned? >> caller: i don't -- i didn't personally know the suspect. from what i can tell, he seemed like the quieter kid. didn't really have a group, i guess, you could say. >> neil, deborah ferrick is with me. she wants to ask you a question as well. >> neil, there were reports that one of the teachers actually chased the gunman out of the school and in doing so, he may have saved multiple lives. what are you hearing about the teacher? >> caller: right. that teacher is also a football coach. a great guy. coach hall. what i've heard is that he chased out the gunman and from what i've heard from people that were there is that he may have been shot at. and, you know, not hit. but coach hall just like -- he always talks about how much he cares about us students and his team and you know, everyone. and i think today he really went out and he proved how much he cared about us. he would take a bullet for us. >> does, once the gunman was out of the school, did officials make it clear that, in fact, the coast was clear or were students still in lockdown waiting for police and sheriff's deputies, as well as the s.w.a.t. team to arrive and give an all-clear? >> i could say they wanted to take precautions, you know. >> caller: they wouldn't put us out there in harm's way. as far as i could tell, everything was controlled by the school and the authorities and that's all i know as far as i know. >> so right now, neal, what are the principals and the authorities told you, is school off tomorrow? what's going on? >> caller: from the reports and everything, they're saying, mr. bergant has said tomorrow's classes are over. we won't have classes tomorrow. >> at least, not tomorrow. neil, good luck to you and all the students in chardon, outside of cleveland. we appreciate you joining us very much. this teacher, football coach, clearly a hero. >> atf is doing an emergency trace on the gun, had he been given the chance to reload assuming he had extra bulletion, this massacre could have been even wurs, this shooting, i should say. but he was able to get the student off the premises and they set up a perimeter and then check the bags of each and every student to make sure that the gunman was, in fact, acting alone and didn't have an accomplice inside the building. small steps that resulted in very big end results. again, one student is dead. four others wounded. so it's the town's still in shock. >> we're getting a picture of the student. we're going to come back. we'll take a quick break and continue the breaking news. we're getting a statement from the secretary of education, arne duncan who has reacted to what happened in ohio on this day. that and all the day's other important news coming up. ♪ ♪ wow... ♪ [ female announcer ] sometimes, all you need is the smooth, creamy taste of werther's original caramel to remind you that you're someone very special. ♪ werther's original caramels. any way you want it. that's the way i need it. any way you want it. that's the way i need it. we just had ourselves a little "journey" moment there. yup. ♪ any way you want it ♪ that's the way you need it ♪ any way you want it i'm going to own my own restaurant. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i want to fix up old houses. 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[ female announcer ] discover what's next in your life. get this free travel bag when you join at aarp.org/jointoday. ...we inspected his brakes for free. free is good. free is very good. my money. my choice. my meineke. we're just getting in a statement from the education secretary, arne duncan. we're also getting in a picture of the suspect in this case. stand by and we'll go there in just a moment. we're going to take a look and see what's going on. this is an incident at a school in chicago. here he is. this is the individual, this is the student who's been arrested in connection with this shooting. you can see right there, deborah ferrick is with me. this is from his facebook page, deb. tell us what you've heard. you've been reporting on this throughout the day. >> reporter: a couple details about this young man. one of the students interviewed at the high school said apparently he was having some sort of family troubles. may have come from a broken home. that, in fact, he was living with his grandparents at this time. this, according to a student. all of this information from kids who knew him. not clear why he was living with his grandparents but, again, you can see his picture on facebook. what's so interesting about this is that he had been communicating that, apparently, there have been some correspondence that he was getting angry. there was a letter that's been published showing that he was unhappy with certain things. all of this is under investigation by police. they're trying to get to the heart of this. what caused this young man to bring a gun into the school and open fire in the cafeteria at the busiest part of the entire morning. you have to imagine, they have a breakfast program there. kids were eating. there was a study hall there and so it's not for nothing that he picked this particular area and this particular table. and that's exactly what the authorities want to know. why he decided to open fire. and the fact that he didn't say anything while he was shooting. that also complicated his motives. but he was taken into custody shortly after the shooting. about an hour and a half after the first gunshots. we don't know whether he's retained an attorney and he's been questioned. we don't know if he's cooperating. but at least he's in custody and that gave great piece of mind to all, officials. it was a tragic situation but it was a contained sit