Capitol Hill Police Give Update on Reports of Active Shooter #breakingnewsalert

Good afternoon. At 2.30 this afternoon, MPD got a call, a 911 call, saying there was an active shooter in the Park building on the Senate side of the Capitol. We responded within seconds. We had a group there, a group of officers there. We have been training for active shooters for the last couple of years, and we've been training inside these office buildings. So it was very quickly, we had a group of about 20 officers. We started going floor to floor through that building. Within a few minutes more, we got additional calls, but I think these calls were based on some of the staffers and other people that are here saying, hey, I heard about an active shooter, and so they were calling friends, family members who were then calling 911 again. So I think we have really just all started with one call that Metropolitan Police got at 2.30. Right now we have close to 200 police officers going floor to floor through all three Senate office buildings. We've actually cleared one of the buildings. The other two are nearly clear. We gave an order very quickly for the staff to shelter in place as we were going door to door to check each office building. Once we get to the office building, we go inside the office building, check all the people there, all the rooms. Some of the people were asking if they could leave, so they were able to leave, but the shelter in place order is still in place for those folks that are still there. But we weren't stopping people from leaving. We are stopping people from getting back in the building at this point. So again, we've had the advantage of having trained for this over the last couple of years, and we had a very quick response, but so far, nothing. We found nothing concerning. We've got nobody that has actually heard shots, and certainly nobody, no victims. And as we've gone through the building, no one has said that they've seen anything. The original lookout was for a heavy set Hispanic male wearing body armor, but again, no one's actually, no other information, no confirmation. So now all three Senate office buildings have been cleared, and so I'll take any questions you want. Chief, are you worried about tomorrow at all? We're prepared for tomorrow. We've been working with our partners from our partner agencies here, MPD, US Park, Secret Service, and Federal Protection Service. We've all been working together in preparation for whatever, if the indictment in fact did happen. We've been talking about this for a couple of weeks now. So we've had a couple of phone calls today. So yeah, we're prepared for whatever might happen. Chief, could you talk about the 911 call originally? Chief Mangers, do you expect that fencing would go up overnight after tomorrow? No. No. Chief, can you talk about the initial phone call? Did they hear shots in the call or just see this person? No. The call from MPD did not indicate that they heard anything. It was just someone saying that there was an active shooter, gave a description, and said it was in the heart building. Was it swatting? Was somebody swatting? Is there any motive behind this call? That I don't know, and that I don't know. Have you made an act with anyone who might have made that first 911 call? No. No. The call, the original caller to MPD, the call just bounces back from, they've tried a couple of times and it comes back to a different location. Chief, MPD came out pretty early and said that they didn't find anyone and there were no injuries. What explains them getting out so far ahead of you guys? I'm not sure that that's the case, but we can look at the time frame, but we were very quick. Yeah, I think that the original call that we got, the original information was that it was in the heart building and we were the first ones to respond to the heart building and that was within seconds of us getting the information. How many agencies responded as of this evening? The only one that I know of that were inside the building were Capitol Hill. Is this a false alarm at this point? I think at this point we can say that we've found no confirmation that there was an active shooter and that this may have been a bogus call. Any idea how they got in the building? Who got in? If there was a person in gear or with a gun. Well that was one of the issues that of course we had, that we were aware of was that we have officers screening people at every entrance that's open and so it would have been unusual for anybody to be able to get in. I'm not saying it's impossible, but certainly we had to work on the assumption that somebody may have gotten in, but we had no indication from all the entry points that we staffed that anybody came in that was suspicious. If there's not going to be fencing tomorrow, are there going to be any security precautions? Bike racks? We have a security plan in place, yes. Will you allow them to come in? No, I will not. Alright, thank you all very much. Okay, great. I saw, I saw your face. Are we riding on this? They actually reached out to me. another it would probably be about another 25 points now. Can you hear me? Right there.