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>> good morning, carol. the students at this school were actually expected to be back at class today, but not at their regular school building. they'll be meeting at a nearby high school. they will be back at their desks at their old school it is expected tomorrow. that is if some parents decide to let them come back here after they got the scare of a lifetime. hundreds of kids, ages 4 to 10 running for safety as gunfire erupts in their school. inside 20-year-old michael brandon hill armed with what police say was an ak-47 and a number of other weapons takes office workers hostage and tells th...

Cut a hole in a fence, take the kids through the back of a house, down a small embankment to an adjoining street, get the kids on the school bus. >> david mattingly joins me now. david, what you have learned about this gunman and why he may have done this? >> reporter: well, he's been identified just in the last hour, anderson. police say he's michael brandon hill. police say he's 20 years of age. he's now being charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, terroristic threats and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. they continue to interview him. as far as a motive goes, poli...

Station, when this man went into the office and took a couple of office workers hostage, he had them call a television station and relay a message to them that he was not afraid to die, and that he wanted the television station to come out and take pictures while he was killing police officers. now, fortunately that didn't happen. this man, michael brandon hill, did fire half dozen shots at officers, they did return fire but then he gave himself up. so no bloodshed here. he never made any of the shots fired at any of the staff and luckily none of the children. but still very scary times at thi...

Anderson. his name is michael brandon and he's 20 and being charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, terroristic threats. as far as a motive, police aren't saying why he decided to do this. we do know from talking to a local television station, when this man went into the office and took a couple of office workers hostage, he had them call a television station and relay a message to them that he was going -- he was not afraid to die, and that he wanted the police -- the television station to come out and take pictures while he was killing police officers. now fortunately, that didn...