- A man opened fire at a hospital in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said.
- There were several injured and several dead, the police said on Twitter and Facebook. They would currently search the building.
- The shooter and at least three people were dead, news agencies and the police later said.
The officers were called to the hospital because of a man armed with a gun. At first nothing was known about the background of the crime. The United States is currently being shaken by a whole series of shootings.
Just last Tuesday, an 18-year-old opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The gunman holed himself up in a classroom and killed 19 children and two teachers before being shot dead by the police himself.
Ten people recently died in Buffalo
A few days earlier, a gunman opened fire in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing ten people and injuring three others. According to investigators, the crime was racially motivated. 11 of the 13 victims were black. The Uvalde killing spree in particular has once again fueled the debate about tightening gun laws in the USA.
Democratic US President Joe Biden had spoken out in favor of it. For years, however, many Republicans have opposed stricter regulations, such as a ban on assault rifles. The US has long struggled with massive levels of gun violence. In 2020, gun injuries were the number one killer of children and adolescents in the United States, ahead of traffic accidents.