Oklahoma shooting

2022 - 6 - 2

Oklahoma

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Oklahoma police report four victims and gunman dead after mass ... (ABC News)

Local police say a man armed with a rifle opened fire inside a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing four people, in the latest of a series of mass ...

So, once I got here and then I heard that she [my mother] was OK, the shooter had been shot and was down, I felt a lot better. It still is horrible what happened," Mr O'Brien said. "They were rushing people out. "We also found who we believed to be the shooter, and still believe to be the shooter, because he had a long rifle and a pistol with him," Captain Meulenberg added. Captain Meulenberg said police received a call about a man with a rifle on the second floor of a building on the medical campus and that "it turned into an active shooter situation". He said that, by the time officers arrived on the scene, "they found a few people have been shot, a couple were dead at that point".

Tulsa, Oklahoma, medical center attack: 4 killed in latest mass ... (USA TODAY)

A gunman shot and killed at least four people and himself Wednesday on the St. Francis Health System campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police say. Latest.

Those shootings have left 76 dead, including 31 adults and children in Buffalo and Texas, the database says. At least four people were killed in the shooting besides the suspected gunman, and several others were injured, police said. The shooting suspect later turned himself in. Johnnie Munn arrived at the reunification site Wednesday night to help provide food, water and emotional support. This time, he responded to a fatal attack in his hometown. Four minutes later, police said officers arrived at the location. "It's surreal and aggravating," Munn said. “Oklahoma’s hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices are places for healing and should be safe for all,” Holden said. He deliberately made a choice to come here and his actions were deliberate." Oklahoma State Medical Association President Dr. David Holden said in a statement the organization was heartbroken to learn of the loss of lives at the Tulsa hospital. He's attended to victims at the site of the deadliest U.S. mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017, where 60 people were killed. Four people were killed Wednesday in a shooting at a medical center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said, the latest in a wave of deadly gun violence occurring across the United States.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital shooting: 'It was just madness inside' St ... (CNN)

Four people were killed in Tulsa on Wednesday after a gunman -- who was later found dead -- opened fire on the second floor of a medical building, ...

"Police were everywhere in the parking lot, up and down the surrounding blocks," said Proctor, a registered nurse for more than four decades. Two officers are seen taking long guns out of their trunks as more emergency vehicles race to the scene. "This was not a random shooting by this individual." Two of the deceased were found in the same room as the gunman, the police captain said. My daughter-in-law is from Buffalo, so now it's so close to home, it's not even safe if you come outside anymore, you know?" "It's awful, it's sad.

Tulsa hospital shooting: number of wounded not known after four killed (The Guardian)

Gunman also dead, police deputy chief says, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were at the scene. Those shootings have left 76 dead, including 31 adults and children in Buffalo and Texas. The death toll does not include the suspects. “But it was definitely a ‘this is happening here’ moment.” Dalgleish said an orthopedic clinic is located on the second floor where officers discovered the shooter and several victims. Tankersley said he and his mother sheltered in his father’s room for more than an hour, trying to learn information from TV news and passing nurses. “It appears both weapons at one point or another were fired on the scene,“ Dalgleish said.

Oklahoma hospital shooting: Four dead after gunman targets doctor (BBC News)

Dr Preston Phillips was killed in Wednesday's attack, according to Tulsa city officials. Police named the other victims as Dr Stephanie Husen, Amanda Glenn and ...

"Every day, for years... "All of my colleagues went into medicine to help people. Dr Ryan Parker, an emergency physician at the hospital, apologised to the family of Mr Love, the slain patient, and said the loss of her own colleagues was "incomprehensible".

Oklahoma gunman who killed four targeted surgeon who treated him (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The suspect wanted to kill the doctor who he blamed for back pain he felt after surgery, US authorities have revealed.

Our philosophy is that we will stop the threat and we will do that by any means necessary,” Franklin said. He entered through the second-floor entryway and worked his way into the building, Franklin said. The suspect “came in with the intent to kill Dr (Preston) Phillips and anyone who came in his way,” Franklin said. Afterwards, the man called several times complaining of pain, Franklin said. The suspect entered a building on Tulsa’s St Francis Health System campus with a semi-automatic weapon he had bought earlier in the day and opened fire at anyone he encountered, Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin said during a news briefing. “They stood in the way and (the suspect) gunned them down,” Franklin said.