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Deadly shooting at Seattle university | Deadly shooting at Seattle university |
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A man has died after a gunman shot four people on the campus of | |
Seattle Pacific University. A suspect was taken into custody after a student acting as a hall monitor subdued him with pepper spray as he tried to reload, police in the Washington state city said. | |
All four were taken to hospital after the shooting late on Thursday afternoon and a man aged 20 died from his injuries, police said. The other three were being treated at Harborview Medical Center: a woman with life-threatening injuries, and a man and a woman in stable condition. | |
Police initially said they were searching for a second suspect armed | |
with a handgun but a short while later announced they were not looking for anyone else. | |
About 4,270 students attend the private Christian university. Its | |
40 acre (16ha) campus is in a residential neighborhood about 10 | |
minutes from downtown Seattle. | |
The afternoon shooting came a week before the end of the school year. The university locked down its campus for several hours and alerted | |
students and staff to stay inside. Some students were taking final exams in | |
the same building as the shooter. | |
The school cancelled classes on Thursday evening and was organising a prayer service. | The school cancelled classes on Thursday evening and was organising a prayer service. |
The incident follows a spate of recent shootings on or near college campuses. | The incident follows a spate of recent shootings on or near college campuses. |
Last month a gunman later identified by police as Elliot Rodger killed six people and | |
injured seven before turning his gun on himself in a rampage in Isla | |
Vista, California, near two universities. | |
Seven people were killed and three injured when a 43-year-old former | |
student opened fire at a tiny Christian school, Oikos University, in | |
Oakland, California, in 2012. A gunman killed five people and injured 18 | |
when he opened fire in a Northern Illinois University lecture hall in | |
2008. | |
In 2007 32 people were fatally shot in a dorm and classroom at Virginia | |
Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, before the gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, killed | |
himself. |