Fatal Shooting Leaves Three Dead, One Injured on Campus: Tragedy Strikes UNLV

Fatal Shooting Leaves Three Dead: Someone opened fire on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)campus, on Wednesday. At least three people were hurt and taken to hospitals, and police said the shooter was later found dead.

“Right now, we know there are three victims, but we don’t know how badly they are hurt,” Sheriff Kevin McMahill wrote on X, which used to be Twitter. “That number could change.”

Fatal Shooting Leaves Three Dead, One Injured on Campus: Tragedy Strikes UNLV

McMahill did not say if any of the people who were hurt had died. At a press meeting set for 5 p.m. PT, the authorities planned to give more information.

Adam Garcia, a university police officer, said that alerts were sent out across campus after people called in at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday to report an active shooter. He said that police found a suspect and “engaged” him. The subject is now dead. It wasn’t clear right away how the suspect died.

Teachers and students locked themselves in their classrooms.

Around 30,000 students and teachers on the school locked themselves in their classrooms and dorm rooms.

John Harris, a student, heard what he later found out was a gunshot while getting out of his car in the parking area of an on-campus apartment building. Harris told the person in the lift that he got an emergency text message from the school.

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Harris, 21, who took refuge at a friend’s room, said, “I didn’t know what to believe.” “But as I came down to the street, and I saw there were a bunch of cops in the parking lot at the student union, I knew what I heard was a gunshot and this wasn’t a drill.”

There was safety for Professor Kevaney Martin under a desk in her classroom, along with three students and another teacher.

“It was terrifying, I can’t even begin to explain,” said Matin. “I was trying to hold it together for my students, and trying not to cry, but the emotions are something I never want to experience again.”

Martin said she was texting family and friends to see if they heard that a suspect had been arrested. When another professor walked into the room and told everyone to leave, they ran out of the building with dozens of other students. Martin piled all of her kids into her car and drove them far away from school.

“Once we got away from UNLV, we parked and sat in silence,” she stated. “No one spoke. We were shocked to the core.”

On X, the university said that the shooter was in the Beam Hall, Frank and Estella Building, which is home to UNLV’s Lee Business School. They also said that cops were reacting to a report of shots being fired at the nearby student union.

Police in Las Vegas said on X that the suspect “has been located and is deceased” about 40 minutes after the first alert.

A university post on X told students and the public about the situation.

The school wrote, “This is not a test.” “RUN-HIDE-FIGHT.”

Matthew Felsenfeld, a student, said that he and about 12 other friends locked the door to their room in a building close to the student union.

A 21-year-old journalism student named Felsenfeld said, “It’s the time you call your parents and tell them you love them.”

He said he didn’t hear any gunshots or see anyone hurt, but he did see cops getting ready to break into the next-door building. Soon after, cops arrived and told them to leave.

Senior Pierre Lescure was riding his bike from home to school for a meeting when he said ten police cars went by him.

Police were the only ones there; they drove too fast. “It was clear that someone shot,” Lescure said. “It could not be something else.”

The site of UNLV is 332-acres (135-hectares) and is less than 2 miles east of the Las Vegas Strip.

After the shootings on campus, the Federal Aviation Administration told all planes coming into Harry Reid International Airport to stay on the ground. About 2 miles (3 km) north of the airport is the university.

A spokesman for the FAA, Tony Molinaro, said that he would let Las Vegas police handle a request for comment.

The shootings in Las Vegas meant that there were no classes at the university and no basketball game between UNLV and the University of Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday night.

People in the city are still traumatized from the Mandalay Bay casino shooting in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017, which killed 60 people and hurt hundreds more. It was one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history. That place is just over 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the UNLV campus.