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United. they're a family. you know? when it's game time, you will see go delta state signs everywhere. it was cleveland does anything, you see students attending that. it's a huge family. they do well together. and anyone that works on the delta state campus, you know them. we all know each other well. delta state is not a huge school and all a family and something they promote in a huge way. i'm at the coliseum and seeing atf police suit up, put gear on. they have fairly large weapons. they have got vests on. they have got bullet-proof vests. and they are -- it looks like surrounding keisley....

free windows. the fbi reports it's on the way. cops are on scene. an hour ago we watched as police with weapons were searching door to door, building to building at delta state. there were lines of students coming out with their hands above their head on the campus. this is the victim. professor ethan schmidt. the deputy coroner say the gunman shot him inside an office, and this may be the second incident of the day. the first on the mississippi coast. a shooting left a woman deadñáí. cops on the coast now say and tell local media they believe the same man whofycñ killed so@ wom...

students, and classes have been canceled for the remainder of the day. hundreds of law enforcement from across the state, along with federal atf agents are on the scene. joining me now, mark potter, who has been following this story for us. mark, let's talk about this person of interest. what do we know about him and what authorities are saying? >> what we know is that he is an instructor of geography and social science education, currently employed at the university. and that he got all three of his degrees, bachelor's, master's and a ph.d. just this spring at the university, at del...

secure this situation? >> well, what they're doing is moving the people away. that's the challenge. they're doing that efficiently it looks like and then certainly search all those buildings for the shooter. but they may have some incase of what's going on here. they reported, mark potter reported earlier that they said the shooter was not a student. so there is some indication they may have some identification on them. maybe this was a robly gone bad, maybe a personal motive. we don't know a random attack, we don't really know enough but locking the campus down. not a large 30,000-s...

on lockdown. students were told to shelter in place. one of our staffers in miami has been talking by twitter with someone at the school who says that he is in a room now with about 35 other students. they are still locked down. it is a darkened room. they don't know what's going on. they are quite frightened. we heard from another person a moment ago, an eyewitness who said there are a number of police agencies there still working the scene. we do not know the status of the shooter. we are waiting for more information on that and for more on the i.d. of the professor. but that's wha...