A gunman and another person were
killed during a shooting Tuesday at a medical building near the Renown Regional
Medical Center, said Tom Robinson of the Reno, Nevada, Police Department.
Two other people were wounded and were
in critical condition, Robinson said.
The shooter died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, authorities said. Police don't have a motive, but Robinson said
it was not a random act.
Kat Raco, an ophthalmic technician who
works on the second floor of the Nevada Advanced Medicine building, told CNN
that she heard at least two large booms and then the sound of scampering feet
above her.
The shooter opened fire after going to
the urology office of Nevada Advanced Medicine on the third floor, said Sharon
Spangler, spokeswoman for Reno Police.
Raco said she and others in her office
were seeing patients when the shooting occurred and first thought someone or
something had fallen.
Police were there quickly, she said, telling
them to lock the doors and not let anyone in.
About 10 minutes after that, more
police escorted everyone on the second floor to a catwalk between the building
and a parking garage. A plain-clothed officer asked questions before staff was
allowed to leave about 45 minutes after the shooting.
"The police handled it in the
best way possible," Raco said. "They were very professional and calm.
Everyone (in the office) stayed pretty calm."
Raco said there are no armed guards in
the building.
Reno police said there were at least
two dozen witnesses to interview.
Earlier, the University of Nevada
police tweeted that there was an active shooter and faculty, staff and students
should find shelter where they were.
CNN first learned of the shooting
through the university police department's Twitter account.
The medical center describes itself as
the only Level II trauma center in that region of Nevada and is home to the
area's only Children's Hospital, its website says. The facility also offers the
region's largest number of clinical research trials.
Last month, there was a hospital shooting in Wisconsin when police shot and wounded an armed man on the
neonatal intensive care floor of a Milwaukee-area children's hospital,
authorities said.
Milwaukee police had gone to the
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin to arrest the man on a felony warrant and
found him holding a child in the intensive care unit, authorities said. Instead
of surrendering, the man took out a handgun and fled down a hallway, prompting
police to shoot him.
Isaiah 19:2
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdomagainst kingdom.
Ezekiel 35;
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of
the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity,
in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue
thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that
passeth out and him that returneth.
Job 24:17
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