Three people including a law enforcement officer and the gunman are reported dead at a shooting near Texas A&M University. The person believed t be the lone shooter is now in police custody. This deadly shooting comes just 24 days after the deadly shooting in Aurora, Colorado — the nation’s largest mass shooting, with 70 victims, including 12 dead — and just eight days after the shooting at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin that left a total of seven people dead.
CNN reports:
Rhonda Seaton, a spokeswoman with the College Station police department, told CNN that the three people killed were the constable, the man authorities say opened fire on law enforcement officers and an unidentified civilian.
A few minutes earlier, Asst. Chief Scott McCollum, from the same police department, told reporters that at least four people — two law enforcement officers and two civilians — were shot in the incident, which occurred around noon just a few blocks from the Texas A&M campus.
The dead included Brian Bachman, the constable for Brazos County, according to McCollum.
A male civilian was also killed, the assistant police chief said.
Earlier, Seaton told CNN that a person identified as the man who began shooting at law enforcement authorities had been taken into custody.
Texas A&M issued a Code Maroon — warning students and others on campus to find safety — at 12:29 p.m., after a report of an “active shooter.”
KBTX adds:
Representatives for the College Station Medical Center say five patients have been admitted to the emergency room. Three had sustained gunshot wounds, with two complaining of dizziness and chest pain.
A representative for St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan confirms that there was at least one female patient taken in from the scene of the shooting, but her condition is undetermined at this time.
Unsurprisingly, the main stream media has not been widely reporting this shooting, which is by far not the only mass shooting since the Sikh temple shooting.
The shooter has died, according to The Huffington Post.