Nevada School Shooting Survivor Speaks; Suspect In Custody After Shooting Near Base
ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.</s>BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: All right, breaking news here. We've got a little bit more information on this shooting that happened after -- outside of this Naval facility in Millington, Tennessee. So this is what we have right now. We know that two people were injured after they were shot in this incident. This is how the U.S. Navy is calling it, an incident north of Millington Navy Base. This is at the Tennessee National Guard building, according to the communications person with this Navy base in Tennessee. They say the conditions of the victims are unknown at this point in time, but they have been hospitalized. It is unclear what the relationship the shooter had with the victims, but I mean we can tell you that the suspect is in custody. This incident under investigation here, happening in Millington, Tennessee. More breaking news for you this afternoon. We are also now hearing for the very first time from a 12-year-old who survived Monday's shooting at a middle school in Nevada. Police say one of his classmates, also 12, gunned down a teacher, that math teacher, before killing himself. And Stephanie Elam is live in Nevada for me right now. And, Stephanie, what is this youngster saying?</s>STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brooke, it was a very moving conversation we just had with this young man. His name is Mason. And Mason says at the time when he heard the gunshots, he thought it was in the distance and that he was trying to figure out why all of his classmates were running and then he saw that Mr. Landsberry, Mike Landsberry was down, and he went to his aid. And then he saw that the shooter had a gun, and he said he was trying to reach for his backpack. He saw the shooter and said don't shoot me, don't shoot me, and he did shoot him in the abdomen. All of this has given Mason a new perspective on guns. Take a listen.</s>MASON, 12-YEAR-OLD SURVIVED SCHOOL SHOOTING: I want people to learn from what I've been through, is to -- if you ever shot a gun and you accidentally killed somebody, you would have made a very big mistake from that. I used to treat guns not poorly but a little poorly. Because I thought they were a toy, but when I got shot, I learned that they're not just a toy. They're a weapon and it could damage somebody very bad. So I want everybody in the world to know that war and battles and anything dealing with weapons and guns and knives, they're all weapons. And they can kill you, very easily, if you hit the right spot. I'm lucky to be alive and the bullet didn't go through me. If it did, I would have been dead, but it just went around me. So I'm very lucky to be alive.</s>ELAM: Where were you when everything started?</s>MASON: I was by south hall.</s>ELAM: By south hall. What did you hear?</s>MASON: A few gunshots and I thought they were out in the distance.</s>ELAM: Really? You thought they were far away? So what did you do?</s>MASON: I was -- I really didn't do anything. I was confused why everybody was running.</s>ELAM: And then what -- when did you encounter your classmate with the gun? How soon after you heard the first couple of shots?</s>MASON: I went to try to help Mr. Landsberry and I went to go grab my backpack, but then I didn't grab it because I didn't really care about it. So then I was going to the closest building, it was in the south hall, and that's where I was shot.</s>ELAM: Did you see him?</s>MASON: Yes.</s>ELAM: Did you come face-to-face with him? Did he say anything to you? He just shot you? How far away from you was he?</s>MASON: About 10, 20 feet.</s>ELAM: And did you realize right away you had been shot? Did you know? You knew it.</s>MASON: Yes, there was a very sharp pain in my stomach.</s>ELAM: Did you fall?</s>MASON: No.</s>ELAM: You managed to stay standing. So what did you do?</s>MASON: After I was shot, I went to try to go back in the building and then I ran away from him. And there was another entrance at the end of south hall, and I tried to get in, but it was locked so I went to Agnes Grisly and there was a secret security that helped me, told me to lay down and put pressure on my wound.</s>ELAM: So where exactly, if you can put your hand over it, where exactly did you get shot?</s>MASON: It went in like this, went through my tissue and kind of tried to exit out, but then it went down and shot behind there.</s>ELAM: Wow.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It went in.</s>ELAM: And while we were having that conversation, one thing that Mason's mom wanted to make sure that everyone knew and the reason why she really wanted to get the word out is because she thinks it's really important that there's gun safety. She said she owns a gun, but she also has a safe and that's what you need to do to keep children safe here. Obviously that's a very sensitive topic, but that's what she wanted people to know. As for Mason, he's saying the community is really going to miss Mr. Landsberry. A person he called a friend. He said he would often go into his classroom and have lunch with him because he was such a good guy and such a good friend. So he is dealing with a lot and I think we saw the second time he has been able to shed tears since everything that happened to him on Monday -- Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: Stephanie, that interview was gut-wrenching. It's heartbreaking. He's 12 years young. I just have to ask, as I'm listening to him sort of breaking down in front of you, please tell me he is getting help that his classmates are talking to professionals because I can't imagine going through this, let alone being that young.</s>ELAM: Yes, they definitely have been putting all sorts of counseling out through the community for the students, for the teachers as well. One thing that is still up in the air at this point, Brooke, is whether or not he will go back to Sparks Middle School once he is healed. That's something where they know there will be a lot of support for him, but at the same time, there just may be too many memories and thought the kinds you want your 12-year-old son to relive day in, day out.</s>BALDWIN: Stephanie Elam for us in Nevada. Stephanie, thank you. Our hearts go out to all those families there at Sparks Middle School. Thank you so much for sharing that. And coming up, we do have an update for you. More on our breaking news as we learned about this shooting near a Navy base in Millington, Tennessee. More on that after this break.