again, chris rozman deputy chief with michigan state police and public safety. we start tonight by sharing an important update and that update is the suspect in this incident was located outside of the smu campus. and it does appear that that suspect has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. it is confirmed that he is deceased. this truly has been a nightmare that we are living tonight. but we have remained laser focused on the safety of our campus our students and the surrounding community. we are relieved to no longer have an active threat on campus. while we realize there is so much healing that will need to take place after this. again, to reiterate the update, there is no longer a threat to campus. we believe there to only be one shooter in this incident. and there is no longer a need to shelter in place on campus. there's no longer a threat on campus. we are sad to report that there have been three confirmed fatalities. this is in addition to the five victims who were injured and transported to the hospital. some of those five victims still have life-t

and you have already met deputy chief chris rozman.g to share this update. our community, in regards tonight's event. we will get directly to the most recent update with that, and then we'll have comments and questions. [silence] >> thank you, chief. again, chris rozman, deputy chief with michigan state university, police of public safety. we started tonight by sharing an important update, and that update is the suspect in this incident was located outside of the msu campus. and it does appear that that suspect has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. it is confirmed that he is deceased. this truly has been a nightmare that we are living tonight. but we have remained laser focused on the safety of our campus, our students, and the surrounding community. we are relieved to no longer have an active threat on campus. why do we realize that there was so much happening, we definitely needed to take action after this. again, to reiterate the update, there is no longer a threat to campus. we believe there is only one shooter in this inci

been listening there to the deputy chief of the michigan state university campus police named chris rozman. he just confirmed for us that, yes, indeed there has been a mass school shooting at michigan state university. there were different locations. we did know that, john, before that. there are multiple locations on campus. one was at berkey hall, they found, they said multiple victims there. and then there was another one at the msu union building. a student union there. they had other reports of a shooting. they went there. there were victims in both of these scenes, five, at least five victims have been transported to the hospital. they do have life-threatening injuries. they've already confirmed that one person was killed. they believe the suspect left listed at -- the msu union building on foot. that's where he was last seen. they do have surveillance footage of the suspect, of course, it would be very helpful. they're going to release a photo. they said, very shortly after this. ball cap, red shoes, possibly blackmail, everyone needs to continue sheltering in place. if you're curre

deputy chief chris rozman with michigan state university police and public safety.can tell, this has been a long night for a lot of us. we have been committed from the beginning to being as transparent and getting as much information out as possible, and we are going to continue to do that throughout the day, and as this investigation moves forward. i am going to start with a brief recap of the incident yesterday. this tragic situation unfolded shortly before 8:30 p.m. the first call that we received was from berkey hall, and academic building on our northern campus that borders downtown east lansing. initial calls reported shots fired in that building, and there was an absolutely overwhelming police response to that initial call. we had officers in that building within minutes, and in that building they encountered several students who were injured. we can confirm that two of the deceased were in berkey hall, along with several of the victims. while the officers were managing that scene at berkey hall, we began receiving initial reports of another shooting at the m

i'm deputy chief chris rozman. this has been a long night for a lot of us. much information out as possible. we're going to continue to do that throughout the day and as this investigation moves forward. i'm going to start with a brief recap of the incident yesterday. this tragic situation unfolded shortly before 8:30 p.m. the first call that we received was from burky hall. that's an academic building on our northern campus that borders downtown east lansing. initial calls reported shots fired in that building and there was an absolutely overwhelming police response to that initial call. we had officers in that building within minutes and in that building they encountered several students who were injured. we can confirm that two of the deceased were in burky hall. along with several of the victims. while the officers were managing that scene at burky hall, we began receiving additional reports of another shooting at the msu union building, just to the west of burky hall right on the corner of abbott and grand river. officers redeployed to that location whe