Las Vegas Police swarmed the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, yesterday afternoon due to an active shooter situation.
UNLV blasted alerts for students and staff to shelter in place. Those
who could evacuate were advised to do so. In short, the order was to
‘run-fight-hide’ until the situation was resolved. Police eventually
contained the shooter, who was later discovered deceased. There were
four victims in the mass shooting. Three died, and another was wounded.
We don’t know the identity of the shooter, but this individual was
reportedly someone who had applied to teach at UNLV
The
man suspected of fatally shooting three people and wounding another at a
Las Vegas university Wednesday was a professor who unsuccessfully
sought a job at the school, a law enforcement official with direct
knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press.
The
gunman was killed in a shootout with law enforcement, police said. The
attack at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas sent shock waves through a
city still scarred by the deaths of 60 people in a 2017 mass shooting.
The
suspect previously worked at East Carolina University in North
Carolina, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information
publicly.
[…]
Students and the community were alerted to
the emergency by a university post on X that warned: “This is not a
test. RUN-HIDE-FIGHT.”
🚨#BREAKING:
The Las Vegas gunman, responsible for the mass shooting that claimed
four lives at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has been identified
as a 67-year-old college professor whose job application at the
university was denied
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) December 7, 2023
CBS News also reported
that the shooter was an instructor, a white male in his 60s. Police
won’t release his name until the families of the victims have been
notified. Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
Department said
this easily could have been a more tragic and deadly attack if not for
law enforcement officers responding and engaging the subject:
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— KTNV | Channel 13 News Las Vegas (@KTNV) December 7, 2023
McMahill
said that, during the attack, there was a gathering outside Beam Hall
that included people eating and building Lego sets together. He said
there could have been many more deaths if responding officers had not
"raced to the campus" within minutes and engaged in armed contact.
[…]
UNLV
will remain closed for the week, and additional determinations will be
made about whether it will reopen on Monday, university police chief
Adam Garcia said at the evening news conference.
We’ll update the story as soon as the shooter’s identity is released.
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