The Tulsa Police, in the state of Oklahoma, USAhas reported this Wednesday that he has killed a suspect in a new shooting that has left at least five dead and several injured in the vicinity of the Hospital Saint Francis.
“A suspect has been killed. I don’t know at this time if we shot him or he shot himself,” explained Sergeant Richard Meulenberg as reported by the US network CNN.
The officer of Oklahoma He stressed that “at this point, we can confirm that the attacker is dead.” This new shooting is added to the long list of similar episodes in recent days by USA.
Police are searching “multiple floors,” cleaning the building and evacuating victims, Meulenberg said, adding that there are “hundreds of rooms and hundreds of people inside the building.”
Darin Glodo, of the Tulsa Police Department, told the same chain: “We have injuries,” without providing further details on the number of people injured.
Likewise, Glodo has indicated that the shooting took place in the Natalie Medical Building, a medical office building of the Saint Francis hospital.
This new event occurs following a shooting that left at least 21 people dead on May 24, 19 of them children and two adults, at the Robb elementary school in the city of Uvalde, in the state of Texas, in the south from the United States.
“The police of Tulsa has responded to an active shooter incident near the [calle] 61 and Yale. Please stay clear of the area and yield to all emergency vehicles while we deal with the response. We will update the information to the media as soon as we can gather the details,” said the police chief of that town.
This new shooting occurs just a week following the massacre that cost the lives of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde and 18 days following the tragedy committed by an 18-year-old man in a supermarket in Buffalo, in the State of New York.
One arrested for shooting threats in Los Angeles
A man accused of bomb threats or shootings at five Los Angeles schools (California), including two primaries, was arrested on Wednesday, the US Department of Justice reported.
Marcus James Buchanan, 44, was detained by federal authorities in Oklahoma and will be charged in federal court in Wichita, Kansas.
According to the complaint from the Department of Justice (DOJ), on the morning of February 28, Buchanan called with bomb threats to two elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school in The Angels.
(With information from Europa Press and AFP)
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