>> john hitchcock is on the phone now. can you hear me? john?yes. >> it's good to talk to you. are you with the sheriff or with local police? >> caller: i'm with the sheriff's office. i'm their public information officer. >> it's good to talk to you, john. i know chardon. my brother lives in chardon. i grew up in that area. i'm familiar with the geography there. give us a sense of what you know of what happened this morning? >> this morning at chardon city high school we had a shooter enter the school. we had four victims taken. they have all been transported. three via ground. one was lifted out. we have that shooter in custody at this time. they are still in the process of putting the parents with the seniors and juniors from the high school over at maple elementary which is across the street and we are also sending the children home from the middle school and at both locations the process now is collecting evidence, getting statements and putting the parents back with children. >> i thought i saw lake county s.w.a.t. there. we've been told fb

i've asked john hitchcock to get a head count on that. currently i have 50 made up and i believe his office is doing the same. and the next scheduled press conference will be here at 4:30, shortly thereafter the hearing in the juvenile court. and my last thought is not only with the families, but i have said this because i'm a hometown boy as well. as many people are, chardon will take care of chardon. and i thank you. >> that's going to conclude this press update. we have a handout that gives the outline. get your copy of it. that shows what the school will be doing. we'll be back here again at 4:30. again, we want to thank you for your patience and helping us get through this tough thing. we'll do it. thank you. >> we've been listening to a briefing from authorities there in chardon, ohio, where just over 24 hours ago it was still a matter of chaos and panic for a lot of parents trying to figure out what happened. but now we do have more details about what took place yesterday morning when the suspected shooter, t.j. laip, opened fire r

we have standing by on the phone, lieutenant john hitchcock from the county sheriff's office.enant, thank you for making a couple of minutes for us here. i know you're busy. what can you tell us from the scene? >> what we have at the chardon high school today, we had a shooter come in, we have four victims, they are all at the hospital at this time. local law enforcement, plus the sheriff's office, the fbi, s. w. a.t. team, park rangers, everybody responded to the area. they were able to afhend what we believe to be the shooter, and as far as the conditions of the students, at the scene there were no fatalities but i don't know their status as of yet, since they have been taken from the location. three were transported on ground, one was life-flighted, and now, we're in the process of taking the high school students and reuniting them with their parents at the elementary school, which is maple elementary, across the street from the high school, and at the middle school, we are also putting the parents with their students. so right now, law enforcement is gathering statements,