A shooter opened fire on a Tulsa health center. Police reported multiple injuries and potentially several deaths. Photo: Tulsa Police Department
A man armed with a rifle opened fire inside a health center in Tulsa, in the United States, and as a result of the attack there were four deathsincluding the shooter. The local police reported this this afternoon. In addition, there are still an unknown number of injured.
Tulsa Police Captain Richard Meulenberg confirmed this the suspect is one of the dead, the AP agency reported. She also said that the situation should have been treated as “a catastrophic scene”.
He explained who the police officers were floor by floor and room by room to save the people and make sure there were no further threats there.
The situation exploded in the afternoon, around 17:30, when the police received a phone call a man armed with a rifle in the Natalie Medical Building of the Saint Francis Hospital.
A shooter opened fire on a Tulsa health center. Police reported multiple injuries and potentially several deaths. Photo: Tulsa Police Department
Tulsa is a city of Tulsa in the state of Oklahoma, located in the central area of the United States. The St. Francis Health System was forced to close its campus this afternoon due to the situation in the Natalie building, which houses an outpatient surgery center and a breast health center.
Tulsa security forces demanded to avoid the attack area and summoned family and friends of those affected to Memorial High School west of LaFortune Park. A reunification center was installed there so that families could find their loved ones.
Aerial footage of a televised helicopter showed rescuers carrying a person on a stretcher outside the hospital building. Dozens of police cars could be seen outside the hospital complex, and authorities have shut down traffic as investigations continue.
“Right now, we can confirm that the shooter is dead“, wrote the Tulsa Police on their Facebook site, although they did not clarify whether he was shot by the officers who arrived on the spot or if he took his own life.
This new shooting takes place as the country continues to recover from the massacre that took place on May 24, when 19 boys and two teachers were shot dead by an 18-year-old boy in a school in Uvalde (Texas), where he was the assailant killed after For the police.
United States President Joe Biden has promised that he will meet with members of Congress to discuss the issue of gun control after Uvalde, the deadliest school shooting in the United States since Sandy Hook, in which 27 people died in December 2012.
With information from EFE and AP
Source: Clarin
