50 people had been injured and that a lone gunman was responsible for this. We got word from Ralph Rayburn, a reporter from wsvn 7 in south florida working the chopper today for them, word from him that they believe all of this began in one classroom with one student and they identified the student at the time. The authorities locked down the school, told the students to lock down in place. Began searching the area and put up a perimeter and made their way to a nearby neighborhood less than a mile away where they found the young man in the maroon shirt and the black pants whom you just saw and hes the person of interesting. They brought witnesses from this to look at this man and personally identify him. Then the Broward Sheriffs Office took him in custody. What we have just been toldpy the florida senator bill nelson to peter doocy is that there are, and i quote, many fatalities on scene. We know the senator told peter that after receiving word from the school system. Now were waiting for authorities to tell us that the lockdown is over. We know that the students have been dismissed from the school, that they have been taken to nearby buses. We know the authorities are still investigating. Why know the streets around are closed and that hospitals are still waiting and ready to take in more casualties if necessary. This is the scene from earlier, 3 00 p. M. There was barely controlled chaos around the school. You can see that the Fire Department, the Parkland Fire Department was there. They loaded a number of students or young people on to stretchers and transported them to nearby hospitals. In fact, wsvn has a reporter outside the Trauma Center at Broward General hospital. Lets listen in. We have four people being tended to here at Broward Health. Were waiting for an update. We talked to the friend of a parent. Outside of that man, we havent spoken to anybody and dont see anybody on the outside. Well like to think if theres other relatives theyre on the inside trying to get as close to their wounded relatives as possible. We can pan off and show you this little scene going on out here. Were assuming that those might be family members or friends perhaps being briefed. Looks like a member of the Broward Sheriffs Office, a doctor, a man in a white coat there and some others from the hospital, either hospital staff or family members huddled up there. Another broward sheriffs vehicle pulled up and we see a van off to the left from the Sheriffs Office. Were thinking that this could be connected to what is going on on the inside here. Were well away from Douglas High School, well away from the active scene. Im looking in the distance. Ma m manny, we have the ambulances. One from tamarack and another to the left. Another unit right behind that tamarack fire rescue. So still activity going on here at Broward HealthMedical Center in ft. Lauderdale. As soon as we know more, speak to a hospital official, a parent or any other activity takes place, well be back to you guys, craig and lynn. Thats the latest. Im sheldon fox, reporting live. We keep going back to this because this is significant. Police say they have a person of interest whom may be responsible for this Mass School Shooting that started 1 1 2 hours ago. This is 117th and northwest 47th drive, a mile from the scene there at park land. The shooting started in one classroom at Marjory StonemanDouglas High School. Police, swat, releasing some of these children and faculty methodically as they do in these situations. The poor kids and teachers having to run out with their hands in the air. They took their backpacks as a precaution presumably going through them, looking for anything dangerous. What the kids must be going through. The question now is as you look at the live picture to the right, Police Looking at the person of interest and the picture on the left, an active scene. Are there more kids in the high school . Any more faculty left . As ralph has told us, theyre going to do the grid search. Its a fairly large campus. The perimeter expanded to the walmart. So as they clear sections of this perimeter, theyll clear it out little by little. I mentioned earlier, the governor is on his way. He was in touch with the white house. Hes going to Broward County to meet with Law Enforcement and emergency officials. The president has offered some thoughts on twitter, this from the president a short while ago. My prayers and condolences to the victims of the terrible shooting. No child or teacher should feel unsafe in an american school. He and Governor Scott have spoken about this earlier in the afternoon. The governor will be here at some point soon. Weve said it so many times. Its true. You dont have to be a parent to feel compassion for what everybody is going through. What these parents must be feeling when they got that call. Some of these kids in High School Drive their own cars, some dont. You know, seems like everybodiry kid has a smart phone texting parents. We heard from one father saying please call 911. The parents rushing to the school. If you have a kid, its your worst nightmare. If you dont, you feel for everybody. Lets go back to vanessa who has been talking to stunts and parents Shepard Shepard smith . New york. Thats Lynn Martinez and Craig Stevens reporting. I want to give you new information that we got from our other affiliates. A student, michael katz that he heard what sounded like a garbage truck banging and then a reporting of a boom boom boom and screaming. He got under the teachers desk. And this from the miami herald. Parents are being told that students are sitting between a publix and walmart with guns. This is Broward County, florida at Douglas High School. The town is parkland. Were waiting for police to confirm that this active shooter situation is over. Weve seen the reporting there. Weve seen the incredible pictures from Ralph Rayburn in the chopper of carting away of this one person described as a student. With the maroon shirt and black pants. Trace gallagher has new information. What do you have, trace . Well, shep, were not going to name this kid clearly because police have not named him but we know who he is. Because of that, we scoured his social media footprint, which police have also done. We found that he has a number of relationships with gun groups and his Instagram Page is filled with gun associations. Its unclear what type of weapon was used today. Police have not mentioned anything about that. There was earlier talk of a possible suspect wearing a black cap that got out with some of the students as they were fleeing the building in the early going. We also found out that this person of interest was involved in a youtube chat room about bombs. Because of that, shep, that prompted the police to put out some alerts to go back to the school and get these kids out as quickly as possible and to go through the school and check for bombs. So not only are they trying to clear the school as they always do from room to room and space to space, making sure they have every inch of it covered, but now you throw this into the mix, were not saying there was a bomb on campus, were saying that police are checking to make sure that there were no explosives. This guy snuck out of the building and was in a neighborhood for quite some time. You have commercial buildings on the other side of the school mostly in a residential area. Its our understanding that he was in this residential area for the better part of 45 minutes to an hour before he was apprehended by police. Theres chatter now this person of interest might be taken by the sheriffs before hes taken to jail, might be taken to the hospital, maybe hes injured in some capacity. Well keep checking and find out more about this person of interest that is now about to be transferred from the police to the sheriffs department. Neil so were clear, trace, its my understanding theres no reason to believe that anybody else was involved. There was one shooter, right . One shooter. Thats all theyre saying. At first as we have always seen, they go through this checklist. There was reports of a couple of shooters. That was knocked down in the early going. Right now theyre working on the promise that there was only one shooter. They believe the school is clear of any shooters, but they are going through, looking for any kind of anything else that could be harmful devices. Shepard thanks. On the lefthand side of the screen is the school and the righthand side is where the person of interest was brought in. All of the body language has changed. Its appears this is a situation where the authorities are of the mindset that they have gotten their person of interest. Now to find out exactly what happened in that school. The official information that we have is somewhere between 20 and 50 people were injured. These are ground pictures coming to us live from wsvn. 20 to 50 people injured. We dont know an exact number. A local Fire Department chief has told the miami herald number and the miami herald is now reporting one person has been killed. Since that report, our own peter doocy has spoken with the florida senator, bill nelson, who has told him that many people were killed inside the school. We have not gotten confirmation from that. Senator nelson said he received that information from the school board or a member of the school board. I believe the school superintendent. We just got word from Coral Springs police that parents are picking up their children once released from Douglas High School and that release is underway now. So you can see the process underway. One more thing. A Senior Department of justice official tells fox news theyre in touch with the fbi and this, the attorney general Jeff Sessions is being briefed on the floor shooting situation. As you heard Craig Stevens report from south florida, the president has tweeted on this matter mores that once and spoken with the governor, rick scott. Now were waiting for the Broward Sheriffs Office to come forward. The broward sheriff confirms the suspect is in custody. The active shooter situation is officially over. Theyre beginning to evacuate the students from the school. Now we wait to learn from authorities how many people have been injured and whatever else they can tell us. You can see the broward sheriffs chopper is in the air is in our own local chopper. Lets listen to wsvn coverage now. 12 minutes past 4 00 p. M. In south florida. Saying when is enough. Again, it hits home for us down here in south florida. What happened . What was the motive . Were hearing its a student. We have not confirmed the name or former student. Were trying to get that information. One student saying he knew of the student and the student possibly had guns shepard this is the matter that weve been reporting on and were not yet using though we have the name. Trace gallagher gave you the information about the studentss background and participation in a gun chat. All the rest of that background. The rest of the speculation, we know having spent years working with the Broward Sheriffs Office there, a very modern and wellequipped facility or department. They will come forward with a Public Information officer to give us information when they can we have this one pick chun picture from wsvns chopper. The green is usually the European Form of the Broward Sheriffs Office. Theyre still surrounding this vehicle in which we believe the person of interest is still contained. I guess we can say suspect now. The authorities have said that the active shooter situation is over. The suspect is in custody. In other words, they believe at this moment that they have their man. So who is this . Our recording is this a student that was in class this morning. In class through the day. Sometime between 2 00 and 2 30 this afternoon, so in the last couple hours, this student began shooting. Happened in a classroom. There was a teacher there. Weve since been told by Ralph Rayburn the reporter for wsvn 7 that the teacher had been brought out to be interviewed by police, which to be debriefed by police to give police what she knew. Other discussions led police to this area. It happened live as the chopper was above this other location as the suspected gunman was brought out and taken in custody, put in a patrol car and thus far has not been carried away. You can see some students there. This is a live picture from up above. This is these are live pictures, two coming from wsvn. Students and parents and the rest reuniting as parents pick up their students and wsvn continues live coverage. Lets listen. Ralph rayburn brought us a mile from Stoneman Douglas afternoon. Again, to confirm through police there, the suspect they have identified in this shooting is in custody. Now, the situation at the School Campus is where where there may well still be people inside, suctions of the school building. They canvas, they clear. They evacuate them. Lynn just shared. If youre on twitter, the p. D. Has done a great job of providing information as quickly as they can. For pickup information, for those of you with students that attend that school, and im going to retweet it, and well go over that again, once they release it, south at betty straddling park, thats where you can pick up your kids at this point in time as per Coral Springs p. D. Shepard weve just gotten this. This comes to us from our Network News Service affiliate wfor in south florida that reported to us a lot of students dont have what their seventh period, the last period of the day. So at 2 00 p. M. When this was alleged to have begun, there would have been a big mass of shooting where this happened. Theres always a marked officer in the school from the Broward Sheriffs Office. So somewhere in the school there was an officer wearing his or her Broward CountySheriffs Office uniform. The word from the Broward CountySheriffs Office and the Coral Springs police locally is that the shooter is in custody. No reason to believe theres another shooter. What were waiting to find out now is about casualties, a motive and casualties. Whether authorities have a motive is remaining to be seen. We expect to get information about the students involved and anyone else that may have been hurt as the first calls without out around 2 30 eastern time this afternoon. The latest that weve gotten from the locals is the numbers are varying wildly. Senator bill nelson has been our source on multiple fatalities at school. Lets listen in. To the right here is a live picture of the scene where the shooter was taken into custody. To the left is a picture of the scene, the perimeter there, outside of the high school. Lets run over to vanessa. Shes with the superintendent of Broward County schools. Yes, some former student. Dont have a name yet. Cant release any information to you. That individual, we believe, is in custody at the moment. We hear a high number of casualties. Are you getting any indication from the sheriff how many people may have died . Cant confirm the number. There are fatalities involved here. Can you tell us how many transports that you know of . Maybe a dozen . I dont know the number transported at this point. Again, there are numerous fatalities. Its a horrific situation. It just a horrible day for us. We got reports of multiple shootings. Can you confirm that . Im sorry . More than one shooter. No, we have no evidence of more than one shooter. The individual, again, has been apprehended. I would leave it to the sheriff to provide you Additional Details around that. Someone saw a teacher that was did. Is that confirmed . I believe theres an administrator or teacher that is involved. There may be more. I cant confirm if that is a fatality. Im sure this is a day that every superintendent fears. I pray that we get up and never have to see a day like this. Its in front of us and i ask the community for their prayers, your support, for these children and their families. Were going to do whatever we can to come together as a community to pull through this and we will. Again, were doing everything we possibly can. The students are being evacuated and released at the moment. Were working through that process. Are you aware of any indication, any warning, any behind that the student could have been planning we received no warning, no anything. Theres going to be an investigation. You can see in these situations there could have been signs out there. I would be speculating at this point if there were. But we dont we didnt have any warnings, no phone calls or threats that we know of. Superintendent, theres so many parents that are afraid, afraid to send their kids to school. What would you tell them out there . What i would say, we cannot live in a world built on fear. We have to do what we can to make sure that we provide the greatest Safety Measures we can for our kids. What ill tell you is th