Office. We’re standing on the campus of appalachi high school here at Bexar County Schools. First and foremost, I want to lift up our community. I want to give our sympathies to our community, our school system, our kids our parents It had to witness this today. Uh, obviously.
What you see behind us. Uh, is the evil thing today. At about 9:30 this morning, We received the first call that There was an active shooter in this on, on this campus We’re not releasing any information. as far as injuries, but we have multiple injuries. uh, this is a very very fluid investigation.
It’s very early. and, I have asked the assistance of the gbi. And the agencies here behind me today. and they’re multiple agencies that responded this morning to help us and help the Sheriff’s Office. We do have.
a suspect in custody.
and, we are asking for your patience as the media to please let us get the facts that we need. To make sure. we get this right. again, I’ve asked the gbi to help us.
the Sheriff’s Office. To help us along with this. I know this is not what you want to hear, but I’m not going to answer questions after this is over with But I wanted to give you the respect in our community respect to let them know what was going on initially.
We’re in the process. of reunifying, our students, with their parents.
obviously, that’s chaotic. But we want to be respectful of them and their privacy as well. I want to. thank. the state, the federal agencies the local agencies that showed up today.
As you can see, the multiple EMS and fire from other agencies that responded today, Again. I asked that you lift up Bexar County Schools, lift up appalachi. Lift up our agencies. This is going to take multiple days for us to get answers as to what happened. And why this happened but I wanted to give you a statement.
It is our hope. In conjunction with these people behind us. and we can give you another statement around 4:00 because I know you have to go back on the air That is my hope.
But I wanted to be fluid with you all. understanding that it’s fluid as well.
This investigation I appreciate you being patient with us. Again. It’s very active. and is the ever developing? every minute is developing on what we’re finding So, we’re going to have.
Releases from other schools. Again we ask that you be patient with us. Please be patient with us. And hopefully, I can give you more information. or more better information.
as you will if you will This afternoon. Thank you all for coming out here. We’ll be back shortly. Okay? if it’s been widely reported that people are dead.
Is that true? I’m not releasing information. we have multiple injuries. The person in custody is, I’m not releasing any information, guys. I’m not going to see any more questions It’s time.
Okay, thank you. all right, so we received just a very very brief update. Uh, let’s let’s listen here. Yeah, I’m trying to get the students back. um, with their families.
We will be holding a news conference at 4:00 if you’re not already following us on Twitter, X, make sure you’re following us, we’ll be, we’ll be providing updates.
Then, I know there are a lot of details investigative details, you want more information? That is more the investigators are actively working on right now. You can add. Yeah.
So the idea will be to be back here at 4:00 but keep an eye on our social media. If that changes you’ll know it we’ll be able to uh, uh, address. hopefully answer. uh more questions for you, okay? Or be in a position to give you more energy, We’ll just have to see how things we just realized this was telling us, Uh, what you know about that we’re not in any kind of position?
the made his comments, uh, we’ll leave it at that by 4:00. We hope to have a better picture a bigger. uh, bigger.
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