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It's immaculate to see what it came from. >> so madeleine, talk about that. what it means to be at lusher, but also to know that it was a place that before the storm did serve very different students and in a different kind of space. >> well, i can say that when i originally attended lesher elementary school the majority of the students were students of color and low income. since katrina, the demographic has shifted and i can say that it's not representative of the student body and the school that i grew up in. it's a majority white, and it's a majority of students that live in a neighborhood...

at about 10:00 local time, he went into oikos university and began shooting indiscriminately. police describe what is it looked like when they got here. take a look. >> when we got there, officers found several victims throughout the classroom, throughout the building. there were several people hiding in locked buildings, locked doors, behind desks, as you can imagine very frightened, very scared. some of them were injured, we had to rescue them out. we had to force our way into a number of rooms because they were locked behind doors. >> reporter: after the shooting, the suspect fled...

at this point they don't have a motive for the shooting. they tell at at 10:30 a.m. he went into oikos university and started shooting indiscriminately at people. we know seven people are dead. three more people are wounded. police describe what it looked like when they got here. take a look. >> when we got there officers found several victims throughout the classroom, throughout the building. there were several people hiding in locked buildings, locked doors, behind desks. as you can imagine, very frightened, very scared. some of them were injured so we had to rescue them out. we ha...

dan simon is on the scene for us and joins with us the very latest. what do we know about what happened and about the suspect? i take it he was a former student at this college? >> reporter: that's what we're hearing at this point of we're hearing that he was a form he nursing student who was either expelled from the school or dropped out on his own. we know that he is described as being in his 40s. an asian male and picked up at a local grocery store about 20 minutes away from here. >> any indication, dan, as to the alleged gunman's motive? any connection between this man and his vi...