Tulsa police confirmed that a shooter killed four people at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Wednesday.
“Four innocents and one shooter” are dead, Jonathan said Brooks of the Tulsa Police Department at a news conference Wednesday.
Police have not yet identified the shooter and said he died after a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The shooter had a rifle and a pistol, Brooks said.
Tulsa police said in a Facebook post shortly before 6 p.m. that the shooter was dead.
“Currently, officers are checking every room in the building for additional threats,” police said at the time. “We know that there are multiple injuries and potentially multiple victims”.
For your On the other hand, Tulsa Police Deputy Director Eric Dalgleish said: “We have four civilians who are dead and we have a shooter who is dead.”
Dalgleish pointed out that the identity of the shooter, a black man between Y 40 years old, who arrived at the hospital at 16: 40 local time.
He also indicated that detectives are questioning witnesses to try to determine the details of what happened.
Tulsa Police Captain Richard Meulenberg said multiple people were injured; he called it a “catastrophe scene.”
St. Francis Health System closed its facilities Wednesday afternoon due to the situation at the Natalie Medical Building. The Natalie building houses an ambulatory surgery center and a breast health center.
Aerial footage from a television helicopter seemed to show the first responders removing someone on a stretcher from the hospital building.
Dozens of police cars could be seen outside the hospital complex, with authorities shutting down traffic as the investigation progressed.
A reunification center was set up at a nearby high school so families can find their loved ones.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also at the scene, a spokesman said.
The shooting marks the number mass shooting 233 of the year in the United States, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive. The file characterizes a mass shooting as four or more shot to death, not including the shooter.
This new shooting takes place while the country continues to recover from the massacre that occurred in the past 24 May, when 19 children and two teachers were shot dead by a young man from 18 years in a school in Uvalde (Texas), where the aggressor was later shot by the police.
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