There has been yet another mass shooting in America, as four people were said to have been killed on Wednesday at a Tulsa medical building Oklahoma, police said in a news conference.
According to the Police, the gunman at the Tulsa medical building Oklahoma is also dead, while authorities believe the shooter’s gunshot wound was self-inflicted, Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish said in the news conference.
Dispatchers received a call about an active shooter at the Tulsa Medical Building, a physicians’ office building on the St. Francis Hospital campus, at roughly 4:52 p.m. local time, Dalgleish said.
Officers responded to the scene at roughly 4:56 p.m. and made contact with victims and the suspect roughly five minutes later, Dalgleish said. The officers who arrived could hear shots inside the building, which directed them to the second floor, according to the deputy chief.
“The scene is fairly limited to one section of that floor, on the second floor,” Dalgleish said. No officers were injured, he added.
Investigators are interviewing witnesses that were in the building, Dalgleish said.
A ‘catastrophic’ scene
Earlier Wednesday, Richard Meulenberg, with police, said authorities were continuing to evacuate “multiple floors” of the building, which included “hundreds of rooms and hundreds of people.”
“We’re treating this as a catastrophic scene right now,” Meulenberg said.
There has been a reunification site set up for family members and friends at Memorial High School west of LaFortune Park, police added.
President Joe Biden has been briefed on the shooting, a White House official said. The White House is closely monitoring the situation and has reached out to state and local officials to offer support.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is also assisting on scene, the ATF Dallas Field Division said on Twitter.
‘I just knew that it was a shooting’
Debra Proctor was in another building on the hospital campus for a doctor’s appointment when she heard police sirens ringing out.
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 children and two teachers before being fatally shot himself and just more than two weeks after shooting at a Buffalo supermarket by a white man who is accused of killing 10 Black people in a racist attack. The recent Memorial Day weekend saw multiple mass shootings nationwide, even as single-death incidents accounted for most gun fatalities.