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Officers coming in. >> reporter: first responders raced to the scene carrying out the wounded. cell phone video shows the offer and two civilians coming to the aid of one of the victims. >> two police officers were on the scene at the time the incident occurred. >> reporter: as gunshots rang out the injured school teacher reached up to pull a fire alarm. she's being called a hero. officials say one handgun was at the scene. they found wigs and disguises in the hotel room of the shooter. what remains a mystery is the motive. >> this is a senseless, tragic act. why would you come here and do som...

Victims can do is wait to act. >> it's the hesitation. not realizing what is actually happening and by failing to do that there is a delayed response which would allow the perpetrator more time to commit the heinous act. >> he's got a gun! he's got a gun out there! >> reporter: once you are aware of the shooter alert others and call police if you'ren enin a safe place. >> is this 911? everybody is screaming. 123 smith building. we're in the 123 smith building. please hurry. then go into lockdown. silence all cell phones. lock doors and barricade offices or classrooms. get creative experts say....

This is such a senseless, tragic act, why would you come here and do something like this? >> question everyone is asking. a senseless tragic act. that's how the police chief of lafayette, louisiana, as you saw right there is describing what happened inside a crowded movie theater last night. investigators are now trying to piece it altogether. trying to find out what caused this man right here, 59-year-old driter as he's described from alabama to open fire in an evening screening of a comedy "train wreck" it's called before killing himself when police closed in. we have just learned that this ...

Tragic act. why would you come here and do something like this? and so -- just like the victims, we're searching for answers too. >> reporter: and this community is still reeling. the healing process has yet to even begin. but across the state today, louisiana governor bobby jindal ordering all flags at state buildings to be lowered to half-staff. >> ryan thanks very much ryan nobles on the scene for us. people who knew john houser say he was politically charged. online posts suggest he was anti-government, anti-media and possibly a white supremacist. miguel marquez is digging deeper into the ...

And opened fire. police say two officers happened to be on site at the time. of course, many others quickly followed. ambulance ambulances arrived in six minutes. >> reporter: lafayette police has johnson street on lockdown. it ear barricaded off and there have been multiple people transported via ambulance. >> we saw a lady with blood all over her leg. i just grabbed my child and we just all ran. >> we heard three shots. not very loud but it was definitely the three shots, then we walked to the front of the the theet, there was a woman on the front, she had been shot in the leg. >> heard the ...