we don t know how they were injured? reporter: we do not. nor do we missouknow the extent their injuries. we are reaching out to the hospital right now to try to determine specifically what kind of injuries they sustained. i have a lot of friends in columbus. they are all at the scene right now. they are speaking to many people barricaded inside of buildings and bathrooms of buildings. the police are advising students and faculty, anybody at ohio state to stay where they are. here you have it from the osu emergency management team, buckeye alert. continue to shelter in place. wait for police officers directions. please contact police 911 only if you have information. i suspect i know why officials are asking students only to call 911 if they have information, because the lines are probably clogged. yes. we want to make sure that when you have a real emergency, the police will be able to get to exactly those students or the faculty that needs the help.
injured. that information has not been revealed to us yet. it is very curious what pete was saying that they believe it was a student at ohio state university. lived in the area. what the motivation may have been, unclear. why the fire alarm was pulled. did that have to do with the notion that it was a planned attack? interesting questions. we look forward to getting the answers. we are hearing from more people but at this moment there is a press conference happening live. an officer called out on the radio that shots were fired. he engaged a suspect who had gotten out of the vehicle after hitting pedestrians. the suspect cut multiple individuals. the officer engaged the suspect and shot and killed the suspect. the first buckeye alert went out at 9:55 to alert the campus
on campus. moments ago the school posted this on twitter. quote, buckeye alert, active shooter on campus, run, hide, fight. 19th and college, watts hall. we wanted to get the information out to you right away. we ll be right back. i m terrible at golf.
how much we are looking forward to their full and complete recovery. second i want to commend our osu police and the other police agencies who responded. you ll find within minutes the situation, something very unfortunate from being very much worse. let me now give specific details the director of public safety, monica. hi. wee have more details for you later. yes. west 19th avenue. west of college on the north academic campus in front of watts hall, around 9:52 a.m., the emergency dispatch center got a report that a vehicle had struck pedestrians. at 9:53, an osu pd officer called out on the radio shots were fired. he engaged the suspect who had gotten out of the vehicle after hitting pedestrians. the suspect cut multiple individuals. the officer engaged the suspect and shot and killed the suspect. the first buckeye alert went out at 9:55 to alert the campus
give information on the condition of the people who were injured. thank you. i m the chief medical officer for the medical center. we received a number of wounded individuals here at ohio state. we also received word from our colleagues at grant and river side that they received wounded individuals. we had great collaboration and coordination between the systems when it comes to events like this. we trained for this. here at ohio state we received five wounded individuals from the scene. two with stab wounds and two with wounds related to being hit by the car. we received a fifth victim who was hiding in place as they had been directed to do by the buckeye alert. who actually just arrived here at the medical center not long ago. there were two individuals with