A week following the massacre at a Texas elementary school According to police, a man in the US state of Oklahoma opened fire in a hospital and killed four people before, according to initial findings, he shot himself. Tulsa City Deputy Chief of Police Eric Dalgleish said on Wednesday. The man entered a building belonging to the St. Francis complex in Tulsa with a rifle and a handgun.
It is regarding a 35 to 40-year-old man whose identity has yet to be determined. According to the police, several other people were injured. Initially, it was said that there were four fatalities, three victims and the shooter. According to the police, the number of victims has now increased to four.
Investigators assume that the perpetrator was a lone wolf
Dalgleish said the emergency call to police was received at 4:52 p.m. (local time/11:52 p.m. CEST). Four minutes later, police officers were at the hospital. Shots were heard from the second floor of the affected building. The background of the fact would be investigated.
Councilman Jayme Fowler told CNN: “As far as I know, the shooter had a problem with a certain doctor and he mightn’t find that doctor.” That was the trigger for the violent behavior. The White House said US President Joe Biden had been informed of the crime. Local and state authorities have been offered support.
The investigators assume a single perpetrator. Police Chief Richard Meulenberg told ABC that when officers arrived, “they found some people who had been shot. A few were dead by then.” Among these was “the one we took and still take for the shooter because he had a long rifle and a pistol with him.”
US fights with large scale gun violence
The United States is currently being rocked by a series of attacks in which gunmen open fire and kill several people. Just last Tuesday, an 18-year-old opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The gunman holed himself up in a classroom and killed 19 children and two teachers before being shot dead by police.
A few days earlier, a gunman opened fire in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing ten people and injuring three others. According to investigators, the act was racially motivated – 11 of the 13 victims were black. Prosecutors said charges would be brought once morest the suspected shooter this Thursday in Buffalo.
The Uvalde killing spree in particular has once once more fueled the debate regarding tightening gun laws in the USA. US President Joe Biden – a Democrat – has spoken out in favor of it. For years, however, many Republicans have opposed stricter regulations, such as a ban on assault rifles. The US has long struggled with massive levels of gun violence. In 2020, gun injuries were the number one killer of children and adolescents in the United States, ahead of traffic accidents.
