Alabama University Shooting
Three faculty members on the University of Alabama in Huntsville were killed and three other staff members wounded in a shooting on Friday at a science building on the campus, authorities said.
Huntsville police and a university spokesman said the suspected shooter, a female faculty member, what food was in custody.
“There was a shooting in the University of Alabama at Huntsville between 4:05 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. You can find three fatalities and three critical injuries and the suspect is at custody. The campus is at lockdown. We have been accommodating save these lives,” Trent Willis, chief of staff and communications with the city of Huntsville, told Reuters.
Huntsville police said all of the dead were faculty members and also a witness said the shooting appeared to own taken place during a biology faculty meeting at the university’s Shelby Center.
“I heard three shots and screaming,” Melanie Gates, an engineering student in the campus, told Reuters.
She was close to the exit with the Shelby Center when the shootings happened and she said the sound from the shots appeared that come from the third floor, where the biology faculty meeting was happening.
There were numerous deadly school shootings in the us in recent years, including a rampage at Virginia Tech University in 2007 whenever a student murdered 33 people, including himself.
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