TULSA (AP): Four individuals had been killed on Wednesday (June 1) in a shooting at a Tulsa medical constructing on a hospital campus, a police captain mentioned.
Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish confirmed the variety of lifeless and mentioned the shooter additionally was lifeless, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
It was unclear what prompted the lethal assault. However, the unidentified gunman carried each a handgun and a rifle throughout the assault, Dalgleish mentioned.
“Officers are presently going via each room in the constructing checking for extra threats,” police mentioned in a Facebook submit simply earlier than 6pm.
“We know there are a number of accidents, and probably a number of casualties.”
Police responded to the name three minutes after dispatchers acquired the report and made contact with the gunman one minute later, Dalgleish mentioned.
Police Captain Richard Meulenberg additionally mentioned a number of individuals had been wounded and that the medical complicated was a “catastrophic scene.”
Police and hospital officers mentioned they weren’t able to establish the lifeless.
St Francis Health System locked down its campus Wednesday afternoon due to the scenario at the Natalie Medical Building.
The Natalie constructing homes an outpatient surgical procedure heart and a breast well being heart.
Tulsa resident Nicholas O’Brien, whose mom was in a close-by constructing when the shooting occurred, informed reporters that he rushed to the scene.
“They had been dashing individuals out. I don’t know if a few of them had been injured or simply have been injured throughout the shooting, however a few of them couldn’t stroll very properly. But they had been simply type of wobbling and stumbling and getting them out of there,” he mentioned.
“I used to be fairly anxious. So as soon as I received right here after which I heard that she (his mom) was OK, the shooter had been shot and was down, I felt rather a lot higher. It nonetheless is horrible what occurred,” O’Brien mentioned.
The shooting Wednesday comes eight days after an 18-year-old gunman armed with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 youngsters and two lecturers earlier than being fatally shot himself and simply greater than two weeks after a shooting at a Buffalo grocery store by a white man who’s accused of killing 10 Black individuals in a racist assault.
The current Memorial Day weekend noticed a number of mass shootings nationwide, at the same time as single-death incidents accounted for many gun fatalities.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had been additionally at the scene, a spokesperson mentioned. A reunification heart for households to seek out their family members was arrange at a close-by highschool. – AP
