Gunman Kills Four At US Hospital In Mass Shooting

A gunman killed four people Wednesday at a hospital building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police revealed. It’s the latest mass shooting to convulse the United States as Texas families bury their dead after a school massacre about 10 days earlier.

The suspect, who was armed with a rifle and a handgun during his attack on the Saint Francis hospital campus, died by suicide.

“Right now we have four civilians that are dead, we have one shooter that is dead, and right now we believe that is self-inflicted,” Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish said.

According to him, officers responded immediately after emergency calls came in reporting that a gunman had stormed into the second floor of the Natalie Building, which houses a clinic on the Saint Francis campus.

He added that Police “were hearing shots in the building” when they arrived, adding that, the said officers then searched floor by floor, room by room while trying to clear the building during what he described as an active shooter situation.

Earlier, police Captain Richard Meulenberg said officers were treating the scene as “catastrophic,” with “several” people shot and “multiple injuries.”

It is not ascertained yet how many other people might have been injured.

Dalgleish said the whole incident lasted about four minutes.

Dalgleish also noted that the suspect had yet to be identified.