A lone shooter opened fire on the main campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding a fourth before the suspect was shot dead by police, authorities said at a news briefing.
Here is what to know about the shooting, victims and the suspect.
The suspect killed three people and wounded a fourth before he was shot dead by police, authorities said at a news briefing hours afterwards.
The attack was the worst shooting in the city since October 2017, when a gunman killed 60 people and wounded more than 400 after opening fire from the window of a room at Mandalay Bay casino on the world-famous Las Vegas Strip only a couple miles from the UNLV campus.
The surviving gunshot victim was listed in stable condition, according to Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
He said several other people suffered panic attacks during the pandemonium, and a number of officers were treated for minor injuries sustained during a search of the sprawling campus for any additional victims or suspects. None were found.
The gunman was a professor who had unsuccessfully sought a job at the school, a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press.
He previously worked at East Carolina University in North Carolina, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorised to release the information publicly.
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