One gunman wearing a ski mask is dead, police search for a second suspect.
ABC news here.
A gunman wearing a ski mask and brandishing a rifle entered a library at the University of Texas at Austin today and fired several shots before taking his own life, university officials said.
The shooting took place in the Perry-Castaneda Library.
Update: AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Law enforcement officials say they believe the gunman who opened fire with an assault rifle at a University of Texas campus library before killing himself was a student who acted alone.
Update 2: An official with the Travis County Medical Examiner’s office has confirmed that Colton Tooley, 19, was the gunman. He was a sophmore math major who attended the university.
An active shooting situation took place on the University of Texas-Austin campus this morning. The suspected gunman has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Austin-American Statesman reports. Police are looking for another suspect, though university officials say it is not clear if there is one due to differing physical descriptions.
No injuries are currently reported.
At least four shots were fired around 8:10AM. It has been reported that the gunman had an AK-47.
Police are curerntly clearing every building on campus looking for a second suspect wearing a beanie and carrying a long rifle.
Email alerts and twitter were used to notify students at about 8:00AM.
A student said he saw one of the suspects, who had a black ski mask on and "smiled" and "waved."
Another individual reported the gunman said "woo hoo" at one point during the situation. Multiple reports say that the gunman appeared to be "jovial. A witness stated that the gunman "looked like he was on something. He was really amped up."
UT adjunct law professor Randall Wilhite encountered the alleged gunman while driving through campus and described it to the Statesman:
"He ran right in front of my car, fired two or three shots south sort of generally in my direction but not at me," Wilhite said. "They seemed to hit to my left sort of in the median. It didn't look like he was targeting individuals. He was just sort of shooting into the ground."
Wilhite described the suspect as 6-feet-2 and 200 pounds.
SWAT Teams are currently on site.
In a strange turn of events, tonights lecture series at University of Texas:
Prominent Second Amendment scholar and author John Lott will discuss how more legal possession of guns leads to less crime. In his controversial book "More Guns, Less Crime," Lott argues that crime rates drop when states allow citizens to carry concealed weapons.
This evening at 6:00 to 7:30PM at the Law School Townes Hall 2.114 (Auditorium) 727 East Dean Keeton Street on Campus.
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The university was the site of one of America's most infamous campus shootings when Charles Joseph Whitman, a student and former marine, killed 14 people and injured 32 others in 1966. Whitman climbed 29 floors to the observation deck of the school's iconic tower and began picking people off with a rifle. He was eventually shot by police. This was the second deadliest school shooting in the United States behind the massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007.
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