A shooter at UNLV sprayed bullets into crowds at two campus buildings during a lunchtime assault Wednesday that killed at least three and caused panic among students, who ran in horror from end-of-semester classes before the shooter died at the scene.
Another person is in critical condition, Las Vegas police said.
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The University of Nevada, Las Vegas confirmed shortly after noon local time on X there was an active shooter at the Frank and Estella Beam Hall, and the college said 20 minutes later there was an additional report of shots fired at the Student Union. Police confirmed a suspect was dead shortly after.
“There’s no further threat,” Kevin McMahill, sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, said. “This is still a very active and dynamic scene. There are victims.”
McMahill said the victims have been transported to local hospitals. Police have set up a reunification center and directed people looking for loved ones to content the center.
“Officers are going unit by unit building by building… to make sure we don’t have any additional victims,” McMahill said.
The university announced the campus and all Nevada System of Higher Education institutions in southern Nevada were closed for the rest of the day, while urging people to remain sheltered in place as police continued to clear buildings.
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“Campuses are all closed out of an abundance of caution,” Adam Garcia, a vice president of public safety services and director of university police services at UNLV, said.
The shooting happened in a city that was the site of one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting at the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas, in which 58 were killed and hundreds more wounded.
The shooting brought widespread fear around the campus. There have been 630 mass shootings in the U.S. this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The archive defines a mass shooting as at least four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including the shooter. In 2022, there were 646 total mass shootings in the U.S.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo said state officials are in “constant communication” with UNLV and Las Vegas police. “If you are on campus, please continue to follow their instructions as the campus is evacuated,” he posted on X.
