Aurora cops, multiple victims shot, shooter still at large. You can see the mass Police Presence. We switch to the feed. There it is. A mass Police Presence around this area which is on the west side of aurora. The latest from the daily herald, multiple civilians and Police Officers have been wounded and the shooter is still at large in this Industrial Area according to preliminary reports from the scene. There are unconfirmed reports, which i wouldnt go into yet. Theyre unconfirmed. Theres an active shooter situation. More information to be available. Thats from Aurora Police on twitter. Swat teams from throughout the suburbs being called as the atf is there. Police urging anyone in the area to remain in place. These are the first all of that reporting i just gave you directly from the daily herald number from the chicago suburbs. Cameras on the ground on scene. You can see this mass presence of police and fire officials. There was a call for all available ambulances to come. In the beginning, they didnt have an idea of how many people may have been injured. We see more ambulances arriving now on the aerial shot from wls. A couple of more Red Fire Department ambulances making their way on the scene as we speak. We dont know numbers yet. I think the height the headline at the moment is, shooter on the loose. We dont know whether the shooter has escaped this building, but the best reporting from people that say they are witnesses, on scene, not authorities, but we want to pass what witnesses on the ground are saying. The stories tend to remain almost exactly the same. Something about a disgruntled employee, some suggesting that maybe an employee that was fired. Its the witnesses that were reporting now that there was an employee that was going down an aisle. This to abc 7. Our affiliate there. A witness saying there was an employee walking down the aisles and shooting everybody. We dont know how officers became injured. The daily herald there reporting that four Police Officers have been injured and taken to hospitals. We do not know their conditions or the conditions of the civilians that were injured as well. We have been listening to the reporting of fox news chicago, fox 32 for the chicagoland area. Lets listen in now and theyre continuing live coverage now in the 3 00 central time hour. Its a bad situation. You want to find the offender and do what you have to do from there to resolve the situation. I want to bring up onscene reports that police are saying the actual location is situation shepard theres breaking news on Fox News Channel. We learned the shooter has been apprehended. Jonathan hunt has it. This is from the twitter account from the city of aurora. Theyre saying the shooter has indeed been apprehended. The area though as you can imagine remains on completed lockdown according to the twitter account of the city of aurora. A few minutes ago, we were watching that more intense activity. A lot of armed Police Officers swept in to one of those buildings. That may have been the moment when they apprehended the shooter. We dont know if the shooter is dead or alive. All we know from the account of the city of aurora is that a shooter has now been apprehended. Clearly very good news. Obviously there may be more bad news to come. We dont have anything official on figures, the numbers of those wounded. You quoted that eye witness a short time ago that was in one of those buildings said he saw a gunman running through the area shooting everyone. So a lot more to learn on this. The one piece of good news, according to the city of aurora, the shooter has now been apprehended, shep. Shepard Jonathan Hunt with the breaking news. Thank you. Chicago tribune now with the statement news. Dozens of Police Officers on scene. We dont know a number of injuries but the tribune and local papers are reporting many injuries, many people shot. Fox news chicago still with local live reporting. Lets listen. This is something where the forensic investigators will be peer a long period of time documenting the evidence. So this is just going going here. The cane county states attorney had written that were told multiple people have been struck by gun fire. Im looking at the washington post. They heard from police in aurora that multiple officers were injured. We know four have been hurt, multiple civilians wounded and being airlifted to the hospital. The word just coming minutes ago that the shooter han be apprehended but the area is on lockdown. I want to bring up the fact this is a different building. This is all a manufacturing area. Were dealing with the henry pratt and then we moved to the al grove Steel Building where shepard i want to show you a different picture coming in from wls, which is another of our Network News Service affiliates. In the center there, you can see the ambulances that have all moved in. When we got word the shooter was apprehended, it was two or three minutes before this series of ambulances made their way in there and history tells us from covering way too many of these situations the past 20 years or so, the ambulances often move in once the police have said all right, theres no longer a threat to authorities. Look at all the ambulances in the foreground. You can see many ambulance theres and a number made their way to the building. You want to make sure theres no damage to the officials so they can get other people that might have been injured. Imagine the situation. Youre looking for the shooter. You have to get the shooter in custody. We saw that activity moving toward the building. Once you have the situation safe and nobody else will be hurt, then you have to scour the building looking for more victims. If the reports from the employees inside the building are accurate and we dont have a way to know yet, but the best source we have is people that were inside and have been speaking to local media. Heres what they told abc 7 in chicago. There was an employees, someone who a current employee on lockdown in there. Said looked up and someone who he identified as another employee coming town the aisle, shooting everybody. Thats not the place where ambulance workers can go in and treat people until you neutralize the threat. They neutralized that threat and in went to ambulances. The hope is they sent them up there just in case theres more victims. You know, we can hope there arent more. From the sound of the eye witnesses inside, this was a horribly chaotic scene. We know of one gunman. No reason to believe there were more gunmen. Certainly there outside the building, all the video suggested that theyre standing down to some degree. All of the frenetic activity that we saw has calmed down and now it appears that the order of the day is to get Emergency Services in there, get paramedics and doctors and the rest in to try to stabilize those that may have been injured. We know that four we havent confirmed it, but we know from the reporting of the suburban newspaper there, daily herald, the four officers and a number of civilians, that a number of people have been airlifted to a nearby Trauma Center. We dont know how many people have been hurt in there. We dont have the details of whats going down. You have to believe once they called in all available ambulances. Than the authorities on scene were worried of a mass casualty situation. Wicked cold. Temperatures in the teens and nerves have been high. You can see from the ground shots from wbbm, folks from the atf, sort of milling about, people talking on phones. Much more relaxed situation now for those that protect and serve. Now those that treat the wounded, its their moment to jump in to action. We dont know the number of victims. We dont know from authorities how they took the suspect down, where they found the suspect, was there some sort of had he been holding anyone or had he been threatening in any way. You can imagine the tension from these Police Officers. If the reports are accurate. That a number of officers were injured, certainly extremely high tensions until they get the suspect neutralized in one way or another. Fox news chicago still breaking into afternoon programming to bring their viewers in chicago live coverage. We appreciate being able to simulcast that now. At this point, are they would they be trying to take an active shooter in peacefully or take him out a question was going to ask you. Would you be bringing in negotiating experts at this point to talk to him to try to get him to come out peacefully before resorting to firing using a Police Officer shepard i have new witness reporting. Again, once again to the Network News Service, abc 7. We thank them. They spoke with another witness that said he saw inside the building what looked like, and im quoting here, a green laser coming from the gunmans pistol. This caller said he recognized the shooter as one of his coworkers. The witness says that approximately 30 of his coworkers were in the building at the time of the shooting. The witness said its a huge facility. Thats a quote. With lots of racks and storage. Another witness that spoke to abc 7 earlier said he saw a guy running down the aisle with a pistol, same witness, said he recognized him as a coworker and shooting everybody. This is from a caller into abc 7 there in chicago. These pictures from fox news chicago in what appears to be sort of the central area of concern. We dont know if this is the area where they neutralize the suspect. I keep saying neutralize. We dont know the circumstances surrounding it. Did they take him into custody . Was he injured in some way . Or did Something Else happen . We dont know yet. We expect to hear from the local authorities in just a moment. Jonathan hunt is with us. Been monitoring the official dispatches from the local authorities. Jonathan, what are you seeing . Shep, were now learning that many of those who are injured in this incident have been taken to the advocate Good Samaritan hospital. That is the only level 1 Trauma Center in the immediate area. Obviously chicago is wella equipped with some very good Trauma Centers indeed. If they need to be called in, they will be. The majority of those injured in our first reporting here have been taken to the advocate food samaritan hospital. Were still working hard to get definsive numbers, shep, on how many people were injured. Were working hard to confirm that reporting from the daily herald, that several Police Officers may indeed have been shot, too. This is obviously in the very early stages here. The one piece of news weve had officially from the city of aurora is that that shooter has been apprehended. As you were just saying, we dont know the actual circumstances of that apprehension. Was he shot and wounded himself. Is he dead or alive or do they have him in physical custody or surrounded in the building. Theres many questions to be answered, shep. Were working to get the answers. As you can imagine, officials have a lot on their plate right now. It will be some time before we get all the details. What we appear to have here is a mass casualty event and a lot of those injuries, taken to the only level 1 Trauma Center in the county. That is the Good Samaritan hospital. Fresh reporting just in from about four minutes ago from mark rivera, a correspondent for abc 7. Mark reports two patients taken to rush coppley hospital. Others to hear hospital they know there were four aurora Police Officers injured. So that matches earlier reporting from the daily herald newspaper. The newspaper of the chicago suburbs, which is leading the reporting on this from the very beginning. Ive just been informed that shortly the mayor of aurora will join us. Mayor Richard Irvine is on scene. Were expecting him to call in in just a moment with an update from the scene. We know from multiple reporting sources that the four officers have been taken to the Trauma Center that Jonathan Hunt was mentioning. Further from mark rivera at abc 7, from a minute ago, john probst said he saw the shooter walk in like any other day and then we heard from reporting from abc 7 a short time ago of this particular gunman walking down the aisle and shooting everybody. Were expecting some local authorities to come with an Information Update in just a moment on what theyre terming a mass casualty event. Authorities on the move there. Very much in the stand down position. So no danger it would appear all danger has passed. Theyre working to treat those injured. The sky cam from wls showing a lot of activity from the ambulances on scene. If you were to drop the banner for just a moment, youll see at the bottom of the screen, all of these ambulances lined up and authorities up by the door. Its kind of dark, as you can see, in this particular picture. The chopper is pushing in on a long lens. Lots of activity around the doors there. As we go back to the ground shot from wbbm in aurora. You can see all the ambulanced lined up. A ground shot there coming in live. New information just coming in from the same eye witness. This is from abc 7 there in chicago. The coworker that he recognized as shooter was currently employed there. The witness said he didnt hear of any threats. His coworker came in at 7 00 a. M. For his regular shift. The regular shift ends at 3 30. So 15 minutes from now central time. The coworker was an assembler who worked about 80 yards away from him inside that facility. Remember, this is a manufacturing facility. We described it earlier what the facility is all about. It would have been about 30 workers on scene at the time of the shooting. According to this witness to abc 7, well get official from authorities in a little while, but according to this witness, the person who is suspected of the shooting came in at a regular shift at 7 00 a. M. , would have gotten off work at 13 minutes from now on a normal day. But instead, about an hour and 15 minutes ago, for reasons unknown, began shooting the place up and walking town an aisle. From the sound of things, targeting about everybody around according to the reporting of this one witness who has been speaking to our Network News Service affiliate on scene. Your world with neil cavuto is coming up. As i mentioned, were waiting to hear from the mayor of aurora. He was born and raised in aurora. Graduate of aurora, east aurora high school. Been there all of his life. The major calling in in just a moment. The screen has gone dark for the moment. We have other pictures coming in from other sources and expect to have the mayor on in just a moment. Official notifications are hard to come by. What we have officially, multiple people wounded, multiple people shot including authorities. Police officers among them and taken to area hospitals. The shooter has been neutralized. We dont know in what way. Multiple Ambulance Services are on scene. Authorities are inside the building and checking for the wounded. The lock down, which has been in place for area schools, they call it a soft lock down, which means dont come and go, when they were concerned there was an active shooter. That made sense. But if that hasnt been lifted, it will be shortly. Authorities have notified that there is no longer danger to the public or anybody inside the building there on the west side of aurora, illinois, which is to the west southwest of the city of chicago. Jonathan hunt, were expecting more information from authorities pretty soon. Ive just been told the president has been briefed on this situation. Live pictures coming in to us now as the president boards air force one. We got worse from the pool just a moment ago that the news media has a White House Pool that follows the president everywhere he goes at all hours of the day. Which is customary. The pool was informed a short time ago that the president has been updated on what had been an active shooter situation in aurora, illinois and with atf on scene and other federal agencies working to see if they can offer assistance to Aurora Police, which i believe are the lead agency in this investigation. Its hard to imagine when a grisly scene might be inside. We have reports of a shooter going down the aisle and you can imagine what an awful scene it must be inside there as authorities work to get a handle on things. Work to get the injuries the treatment they need. Work to get witness statements while all of the information is still fresh in their mind and listening to all the reports coming in to local news media across the chicagoland area. It began at 2 00 Central Standard time. So about an hour and 20 minutes ago with first reports coming in of an active shooter situation at this manufacturing facility. The first real concrete reporting we got out of there came from the suburban newspaper, the daily herald, which is now reporting that the suspect has been apprehended, which suggests to us that the suspect has been taken into custody. If this reporting is accurate, we heard the locals asking earlier, would they want to bring the suspect into custody. The answer according to our specialists on these matters of Law Enforcement is absolutely. If they can bring the suspect in to be able to question that suspect about motive, whether others might have been involved, you want to be able to get ju justice and speak to the suspect. Theres unconfirmed reports out there we go with trusted sources. Were going to leave them to the side. I can tell you that multiple victims have been airlifted our mike tobin in route now, approaching the rush hour in the afternoon there. Mike tobin on the way to the scene. I wonder what your sources are telling you . Most everything is in a state of lock down. The schools, the businesses are locked down, that the shooter has been apprehended. Probably over abundance of caution is the reason that is in effect. A lot of what youre hearing, multiple injurie