Several people were shot inside a Tulsa hospital in Oklahoma this Wednesday and authorities confirmed that at least three people died, in addition to the shooter.
The shooting broke out around 5 p.m. at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, according to police captain Richard Meulenberg. In a statement, the police department said a man armed with a rifle entered a building at the hospital on Wednesday afternoon.
“This became an active shooter situation,” the department said.
Meulenberg said several people may be dead and several others were injuries and it was further confirmed that the gunman, who has not been identified, was fatally wounded, the department said.
So far, the identities of the victims and the attacker have not been revealed, nor have the possible motivations for the event.
The authorities said that he went to the second floor of the building and opened fire. Police were conducting a room-by-room search for other threats, the department said.
Meulenberg asked the public to stay away from the scene, while officers continue to comb the building to rule out any possible threat.
This new shooting takes place while the country continues to recover from the massacre that occurred last 24 in May, when 19 children and two teachers were shot to death by a young man from 18 years in a school in Uvalde, Texas, where the aggressor was later shot by the Police.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, promised that he will meet with members of Congress to discuss the issue of firearms control, after what happened in Uvalde, the deadliest school shooting in the United States since Sandy Hook, in which 27 people died, in December 2012.
This news is under development.
Also read:
Gunman from Uvalde, Texas, cornered and shot students for 77 minutes before he was shot down by officers
· North Carolina shooting coach regrets that teenagers use their knowledge to commit shootings in schools
Gunman from Uvalde was arrested four years ago after saying he planned to shoot up a school