"I lived about two blocks away and instinctively I just drove that car right home, " he said.

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David Harrison, 50, who lives about two blocks away, said a heavily armed team searched his backyard, including an uninhabited carriage house.

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Tapio Varmola, who was visiting the school at the time, told CNN he was in a building about two blocks away when the shootings occurred.

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In about two years, Park Hyatt plans to open a new hotel a few blocks away in the lower floors of a luxury condo building that is under construction by Extell Development Co.

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