LAS VEGAS, Nev. — At least three people were killed when a gunman opened fire Wednesday on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus, and the suspected shooter was killed by officers, according to ABC News sources.
One additional victim was listed in critical condition at a local hospital, police told ABC News.
Authorities said there is “no further threat” to the university, which has been closed for the rest of the day.
University police said shots were reported at Beam Hall, home of UNLV’s Lee Business School, as well as the school’s student union, which is next door.
No motive is known, authorities said.
Shooting at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Police were called about an active shooter on campus at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, said Adam Garcia, a university police official. He said officers found and “engaged” a suspect, who is now dead.
Students were urged to hide or evacuate when possible.
“This is not a test,” the university wrote in a post on X. “RUN-HIDE-FIGHT.”
“Students hunkered down, they’re afraid, theyre scared,” said Sheriff Kevin McMahill with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. “Our officers are going unit by unit, building by building.”
Officers later escorted students off campus.
“Lots of cops on campus,” one student said. “They had guns. We all walked out of the building with our hands up.”
She said as she and her friends walked past the student union building, they could see a window shattered and pieces of glass scattered around.
Authorities said “a number of victims” were taken to hospitals. At least three were later reported dead and it remained unclear if there were additional victims who were wounded and survived.
A University of Nevada, Las Vegas, student talks on his cellphone after a shooting reported on campus, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Las Vegas.
(AP Photo/Lucas Peltier)
Las Vegas police posted on X that a suspect “has been located and is deceased” about 40 minutes after the initial alert was posted.
A ground stop was initiated at Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport on Wednesday due to the close proximity of the airport runways to the shooting site, and because of the police response to the shooting, which included helicopters, according to an official briefed on the incident.
Classes were canceled, as was a UNLV basketball game at the University of Dayton, Ohio.
The shooting occurred in a city still scarred by one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting at the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas, in which 60 were killed and hundreds more wounded. The UNLV campus is just over three miles from that location.
UNLV has more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at its 332-acre campus is less than 2 miles east of the Las Vegas Strip, the area’s bustling tourist hub, and just across from Harry Reid International Airport.
This is a developing story. Please come back for more updates.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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