to show the picture again,
the surveillance pictures of
the person they're looking for.
I think this is so key as it's
going to take everybody coming
together to share these picture.
Perhaps that one person that
sees a sweatshirt or sees that
face that looks familiar,
that could be the thing that is unlocking
this mystery and finding this person.
For investigators,
this is the clearest image we h,
the one image without his.
Mask over his face.
This is the person police are
looking for in this shooting
in Midtown Atlanta today.
Coming in and out of of that
building with that bag in
front of him and and leaving.
They say this man is hiding
somewhere in Midtown,
they believe and is absolutely
armed and dangerous.
And
we did just confirm the two schs
that are currently on lockdown,
or at least two that we know of,
Midtown High School and
Washington High School.
Both on lockdown right now.
The Woods of Arts Center also just tweeting
out that they are on lockdown at the moment.
I we've just confirmed several
churches in the area on lockdow,
canceling events for the rest of the day.
So again, two confirmed schools on lockdown,
that's Midtown and Washington high schools
and we talked about that surveillance image.
How quickly did that come out?
That was the fastest I've ever
seen a suspect photo be release.
And we know Atlanta police.
We've reported on this for mont,
if not years.
That they have been really pushg
to partner with a lot of these l
businesses to access those came.
We're
going to take you now to Grady Hospital
with the Chief Medical Officer,
Doctor Robert Janssen for an up.
So I think everybody's aware the
had a mass shooting down the st,
4 injured people were brought h,
no other injuries occurred that we know of
and nobody was taking any other facility.
The four that were brought here,
three are critical,
one is still in the emergency department,
the others are upstairs being treated,
two in the operating room and on
what's called interventional radiology.
Are you able to describe,
I know there are people are
are you able to describe? No,
I I can't give out that
information. I'm sorry.
How is Grady? Prepared to handle
a mass shooting situation,
so we called mass casualty even.
Within minutes,
we had multiple trauma surgeons,
multiple staff in the trauma Bay itself.
We cleared out any patients who
are currently in the Marcus Traa
Center and we were fully prepar.
We were anticipating up to 12 patients.
Fortunately, we only received 4,
but we were completely prepared for it.
We had all the staff that we ne.
We had all the ancillary
staff that we needed.
We had chaplains there.
We had security there.
Everyone that was needed was in the place.
Yes, yes, we have stopped our ms
casualty call now, but we are prepared.
We initially stopped visitors because
we weren't sure what the shoote.
We are confident now that we
can let visitors back in.
We never locked the hospital do.
We just wanted to stop visitorst
in case there was anything goin.
I'm sorry I couldn't.
So when we activate our mass
casualty event that immediately
starts our command center,
we bring all the surgeons,
all the nurses, all the ancillay
staff to the trauma center itse.
It goes out over both.
Remotely through phones as well
as announce over the loudspeaker
and then we start clearing out
operating rooms and we start clearing
out the emergency department in
case we need additional space.
I know you can't get a lot of
information that can identify,
but can you tell us that these
are adults, children, any
age ranges, They're all adults,
any genders, anything along thoe
lines? No, I don't have that.
We know that a couple of families are here.
But I don't know about the other
ones. You said originally
you were prepared for 12.
Yes, original call come in
that there might be 12.
That's what we heard initially.
But I think in any of these situations
there's a lot of confusion as you know.
Thank you.
Chief Medical Officer,
Robert Janssen giving us an upd.
A few things really stand out.
One that they were anticipating 12 patients.
So you know the initial came in call coming
in was one that was incredibly urgent.
This is still a mass casualty e.
When he said we called a mass casualty
event that's because a level 1 trauma
center like Grady and the Marcus trauma.
Center, they train and prepare
in the event that this happens.
They hope it doesn't.
They want to be ready in the evt
that it does and today it did.
So they make the call that that
mass casualty event is happenin.
That's when they bring in
the trauma surgeons.
He was describing and clear everyone,
you know to the side.
That isn't an immediate priorit.
He did give us some insight into
the conditions of the injured
that I think is really critical.
Even though he can't tell us specifics,
the fact that we have three peoe
in critical condition at this moment,
2IN the operating room one and t
he said was interventional radiology.
Another person that's still in
the emergency room speaks to the
nature of their injuries.
There they are in critical and
they are getting help as we spek
and hopefully we'll know more on
their conditions as time passes.