At least three people were killed, while a fourth was critically wounded following a shooting on Wednesday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus.
The suspected gunman was killed in a shootout with law enforcement. While the gunman remains unidentified by police, BBC’s US partner CBS News has identified him as Anthony Polito, BBC News reports.
Polito, who was in his 60s, was a white former college professor who had taught in Georgia and North Carolina. Although he applied for a job at UNLV, he was not hired.
Per the Associated Press, the shooting took place at about 11:45 am, sending police onto the campus while professors and students kept themselves barricaded inside classrooms and dorm rooms.
According to police, the police began on the fourth floor of the building that houses UNLV’s Lee Business School. UNLV Police Chief Adam Garcia explained Polito then proceeded toward several floors before he was killed in a shootout with two university detectives outside the building.
“It was terrifying. I can’t even begin to explain,” Professor Kevaney Martin, who took cover under a desk in her classroom, said. “I was trying to hold it together for my students and not to…
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