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Four people were killed Wednesday in a shooting at a medical building in the Midwestern state of Oklahoma, a police captain said.
Deputy Chief Jonathan Brooks of the Tulsa Police Department confirmed the death toll and said the shooter also died, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
It was unclear what sparked the deadly assault. However, the unidentified gunman fired a pistol and a rifle during the attack, Brooks said.
“Officers are currently checking every room in the building for additional threats,” police said in a Facebook post shortly before 6 p.m.
Police responded to the call three minutes after dispatchers received the report and encountered the gunman a minute later, Brooks said.
Police Capt. Richard Meulenberg also said multiple people were injured.
Police and hospital officials said they were not ready to identify the dead.
St. Francis Health System closed its campus Wednesday afternoon due to the shooting at the Natalie Medical Building. The Natalie building houses an ambulatory surgery center and a breast health center.
“Hurrying people out”
Tulsa resident Nicholas O’Brien, whose mother was in a nearby building when the shooting occurred, told reporters he ran to the scene.
“They were rushing people out. I don’t know if some of them were hurt or just injured during the shooting, but some of them couldn’t walk very well. But they just staggered and tripped and got caught.” get out of there,” she said.
“I was quite anxious. So once I got here and then I heard that she [su madre] I was fine, that the shooter had been shot and was down, I felt much better. It’s still horrible what happened,” O’Brien said.
Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also at the scene, a spokesman said.
President Joe Biden was briefed on the shooting. The White House was closely monitoring the situation and had reached out to state and local officials to offer support.
Wednesday’s shooting came eight days after an 18-year-old gunman stormed Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers before being fatally shot, and just over two weeks later. of a shooting in Buffalo, Texas. New York supermarket for a white man accused of killing 10 black people in a racist attack.
The recent Memorial Day weekend saw multiple mass shootings across the country, even as single-kill incidents accounted for the majority of gun deaths.
[Con información de The Associated Press]
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