Law enforcement officers head into the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, campus after experiences of an lively shooter, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Las Vegas.

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Law enforcement officers head into the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, campus after experiences of an lively shooter, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Las Vegas.

Steve Marcus/AP

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Three individuals have been fatally shot Wednesday and a fourth individual was critically wounded in an assault on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus, police mentioned. The suspected shooter additionally was discovered lifeless.

The assault simply earlier than midday despatched police swarming onto the campus, which is simply a few miles from the world-famous Las Vegas Strip whereas college students barricaded themselves in school rooms. Authorities gave the all-clear about 40 minutes after the primary report of an lively shooter.

Police have not launched the identification of the shooter or the motive for the assault. The shootings came about in a metropolis nonetheless scarred by an October 2017 assault by a gunman on the Mandalay Bay on line casino that killed 60 individuals and wounded a whole lot extra.

Police mentioned in a put up on X, previously Twitter, that three individuals have been killed and a fourth individual was in crucial situation at a hospital. Authorities did not instantly present further info however deliberate to provide additional updates at a information convention scheduled for five p.m. PT.

Alerts went out throughout the campus after callers reported an lively shooter to police at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, mentioned Adam Garcia, a college police official. He mentioned officers discovered and “engaged” a suspect, who’s now lifeless. It was not instantly clear how the suspect died.

Students and professors on the campus of 30,000 barricaded themselves inside school rooms and dorm rooms.

Student John Harris heard what he later realized was a gunshot as he was getting out of his automobile within the parking storage of an on-campus condo complicated. In the elevator, Harris mentioned he acquired an emergency textual content alert textual content from the college.

“I wasn’t sure what to believe,” mentioned Harris, 21, who ended up sheltering at a pal’s dorm. “But as I came down to the street, and I saw there were a bunch of cops in the parking lot at the student union, I knew what I heard was a gunshot and this wasn’t a drill.”

Professor Kevaney Martin took cowl below a desk in her classroom, the place one other college member and three college students took shelter together with her.

“It was terrifying, I can’t even begin to explain,” Martin mentioned. “I was trying to hold it together for my students, and trying not to cry, but the emotions are something I never want to experience again.”

Martin mentioned she was texting buddies and family members, hoping to obtain phrase a suspect had been detained. When one other professor got here to the room and instructed everybody to evacuate, they joined dozens of others speeding out of the constructing. Martin had her college students piled into her automobile and drove them off campus.

“Once we got away from UNLV, we parked and sat in silence,” she mentioned. “Nobody said a word. We were in utter shock.”

The college mentioned on X that the shooter was on the Beam Hall, Frank and Estella Building, house of UNLV’s Lee Business School, and that police have been responding to an extra report of photographs fired on the close by scholar union.

Las Vegas police posted on X {that a} suspect “has been located and is deceased” about 40 minutes after the preliminary alert was posted.

Students and the group have been alerted to the emergency by a college put up on X.

“This is not a test,” the college wrote. “RUN-HIDE-FIGHT.”

Student Matthew Felsenfeld mentioned he and about 12 classmates barricaded their door in a constructing close to the coed union.

“It’s the moment you call your parents and tell them you love them,” mentioned Felsenfeld, a 21-year-old journalism scholar.

He mentioned he did not hear gunfire or see anybody injured however mentioned he noticed out the home windows as police staged to enter the neighboring constructing. a short time later, police got here and ushered them out.

Pierre Lescure, a UNLV senior, was driving his bicycle from house to campus for a gathering when he mentioned about 10 police vehicles drove cross him.

“They drove too fast and there was no ambulance, just cops. It was clearly a shooting,” Lescure mentioned. “It could not be something else.”

UNLV’s 332-acre (135-hectare) campus is lower than 2 miles east of the Las Vegas Strip.

In response to the campus shootings, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a floor cease of all flights coming into Harry Reid International Airport.

The college is roughly 2 miles (3 kilometers) north of the airport.

Tony Molinaro, an FAA spokesperson, referred a request to remark to Las Vegas legislation enforcement.

Classes have been canceled on the college, and UNLV’s basketball sport on the University of Dayton, Ohio, was canceled Wednesday evening due to the Las Vegas shootings.