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Already gone through that pretty quickly. what we are waiting for now is when will they catch the suspect, 18-year-old timothy george simpkins? how are the victims doing who have gunshot wounds at the hospital? we know that one was pregnant, a young girl or woman who was released after she had fallen at sandra: thank you, we ll take it from there. we continue to look at live pictures out of arlington, texas at this hour. police with an update a short time ago, saying four people have been injured at a school in arlington, texas. the 18-year-old suspect is on the run. welcome to america reports, i m sandra smith. hi, trace. trace: i m trace gallagher in for john roberts. the suspect started firing after getting into a fight at the school. the f.b.i., atf and other law ....
Experienced with this shooting. hi, i was just in a state of shock, like i said. i didn t know what was going on, if people were hurt. if this was real f. it was going on at another school. i was just hearing everything, sorry, it is loud on the bus, we are getting to the performing arts center. it was just sad, very chaotic over social media. my friends texted me all over the place telling me people are dead or people are shot. i didn t know what to do. i just sandra: so glad you are okay, maria. do you know this suspect, timothy george simpkins? is this a student at your school? yeah, i know of him. he does go to the school. i ve maybe talked to him before, but i do not know him personally. ....
As far as stories we re hearing, casey, reminder, we are seeing students reunited with parents, they were under two-hour lockdown. this are stories emerging of student barricading doors, stacking chairs and desks behind their classroom doors, are you hearing more storiess like that and what the students went through for two hours there was an active shooter situation? casey: the same stuff you you have heard, the same stuff we hear unfortunately as other incidents like this play out. an active shooter is declared, be it military installation, movie theater, a school, shopping center, we have really seen it all. you hear those stories of people talking about gunshots and ....
Our police department responded promptly, were able to set up perimeter, secure the school, have the school lockdown and ensure the individual wasn t on campus and began to safely transport the students away from the school to get them reunited with their families. every school district is a little bit different. mansfield independent school district has their own police department. i think we are blessed in the fact they had such a great response and connection with the arlington police department. we had their surrounding community, mansfield police, grand prairie police, arlington and i spoke with governor greg abbott, who sent in texas state troopers to help out in locating this individual. sandra: mayor, as far as what we know about the suspect, we be his age, what we may be driving, we have that on the screen. authorities are asking anybody ....
Locking themselves in closets, barricading themselves in rooms, pulling furniture across the doorway to try to stop the shooter or the threat from getting to you. yes, what an absolute terrifying few hours for the 1200 sorry, 2000 students that go to this school. that is a pretty big campus, you are talking nearly 2000 kids on a high school campus. i think in the coing days we will continue to hear more stories from teachers, probably stories of survival as other people typically tend to put themselves in harm s way sometime necessary situations just to protect others. stories of true heroism is we re lucky we are not reporting any fatalities today in texas. sandra: indeed, casey stegall, thank you, we ll check back in soon. ....