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THE NUMBERS COME BACK.
ALL RIGHT.
TWO WEEKS TO GO.
THANK YOU, RICK.
RIGHT NOW, POLICE ARE
STILL SEARCHING FOR THE
SHOOTERS THAT OPENED FIRE IN
BROAD DAYLIGHT HITTING THREE
TEENS AS SCHOOL WAS LETTING
OUT.
TWO ARE STUDENTS AT HOME
ACADEMY IN GRAND RAPIDS.
ALL THREE ARE EXPECTED TO
SURVIVE.
JUST A MOMENT, YOU WILL HEAR
FROM TWO YOUNG ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO SAW THE
SHOOTING AFTERMATH.
BUT FIRST, LET'S GO TO MARC
THOMPSON OUTSIDE OF HOPE
ACADEMY SCHOOL.
THE SHOOTING ALL STARTED
NEAR THE CORNER OF LAFAYETTE
AND BROWN, HOPE ACADEMY, IS
HERE JUST ABOUT A BLOCK AWAY
FROM THE INTERSECTION.
THE SHOOTING DIDN'T HAPPEN ON
SCHOOL PROPERTY, THERE WERE
PLENTY OF STUDENTS AROUND AT
CRAWFORD JUST LET OUT FOR THE
DAY.
THEN THE VIOLENCE SPREAD TO
THE SURROUNDING
NEIGHBORHOODS.
POLICE HOPING TO LEARN MORE
ABOUT THE SHOOTING FROM THE
SCHOOL SURVEILLANCE CAMERA
WHICH MAY HAVE CAPTURED AT
LEAST PART OF WHAT HAPPENED.
TWO STUDENTS SHOT, THE FEMALE
WE ARE TOLD SHOT IN THE LEG
ALONG WITH THE MALE.
THE SCHOOL WAS PLACED ON
LOCKDOWN AS THE VIOLENCE
SPILLED OUT TO THE
SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD.
WOW, POW, POW.
A WOMAN ASKED NOT TO BE
IDENTIFIED SAW WHAT WENT DOWN
AS THIRD TEENAGER NOT ASTUTER
STUDENT WAS SHOT OUTSIDE OF
THE DOORN THE 200 BLOCK JUST
A BLOCK AWAY FROM HOPE
ACADEMY.
THEY WERE RUNNING.
LIKE FIVE OR SIX OF THEM.
THEY WERE REALLY RUNNING.
THE YOUNG MAN COLLAPSED TWO
DRIVEWAY INTERESTS THE HOUSE.
Reporter: PLACE SAY THAT
TEEN WAS SHOT IN THE TORSO
BUT WAS ALERT AND TALKING AND
TRYING TO PROVIDE INFORMATION
AND TRANSPORTED TO THE
HOSPITAL.
AS FOR THE SHOOTERS --
TWO OR THREE SUBJECTS RAN
NORTH FROM THE SCENE.
WE HAVE A PERIMETER SET UP.
Reporter: PEOPLE LIVING IN
THE NEIGHBORHOOD SAY VIOLENCE
IN THE AREA IS --
COMMONPLACE.
WE WENT ON GRAND RAPIDS CRIME
MAPPING WEB SITE WHICH SHOWS
20 ASSAULTS, SEVEN WEAPON
COMPLAINTS WITHIN A HALF MILE
OF HOPE ACADEMY SINCE THE
START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.
IT HAS BECOME KNOWN FOR
IT.
Reporter: POLICE HAVE
STILL NOT RELEASE THE SUSPECT
DESCRIPTION OTHER THAN TWO
BLACK MALES WEARING BLACK T
SHIRTS.
HOPE ACADEMY DID RELEASE
STATEMENT SAYING THE TWO
TEENS THAT WERE SHOT IN
STUDENTS HERE AT HELP ACADEMY
AND THEY ARE SURE THEY WILL
BE OH DMA. THEY TAKE SECURITY
SERIOUSLY AND THAT STAFF AND
FACULTY ACTED PROMPTLY AND
PROPERLY CONSIDERING THE
SITUATION.