A university student was killed by an active shooter in the Oct. 1, 2017 high-rise casino shooting, according to U.S. Postmortem
The shooting occurred in a city still scarred by one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre by a gunman in which 60 people attending a music festival were killed and hundreds more were wounded. The man opened fire from the high-rise of the casino. The UNLV campus is just over 3 miles (5 kilometers) from that location.
The police were sent to the campus after the attack at about 11:45 a.m.
Authorities gave the all-clear about 40 minutes after the first report of an active shooter. Adam Garcia, a university police official, said officers found and “engaged” a suspect, who is now dead. There was no clarity on how the suspect died.
“It was terrifying, I can’t even begin to explain,” Matin said. I never want to experience emotions like that again and I was trying to hold it together for my students.
Martin was texting friends and loved ones to know if a suspect had been taken into custody. When another professor came to the room and told everyone to evacuate, they joined dozens of others rushing out of the building. Martin had her students pick up the car that she was driving.
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The site of the concert where the shooting happened is less than 4 miles away from UNLV’s 332-acre campus.
Jordan Eckermann said he was in law class when he heard a loud bang that he thought was from a neighboring music class.
But then a piercing alarm went off, sending students to their feet. Some ran from the room in panic while others heeded the professor’s urging to stay calm, said Eckermann, who walked out and was directed to an exit by a law enforcement officer in a bulletproof vest holding a long gun.
UNLV’s 332-acre (135-hectare) campus is less than 2 miles east of the Las Vegas Strip. it wasn’t immediately clear how many of the 30,000 students were on campus.
In response to the campus shootings, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop of all flights coming into Harry Reid International Airport.
The UNLV basketball game at the University of Dayton in Ohio was canceled because of the Las Vegas shooting.
Rachel Weese, who works as a research coordinator at the school, shared the #VegasStrong hashtag alongside a post explaining that Wednesday’s shooting marked the third time she has had to hide in a locked classroom because of the threat of an active shooter.
She told NPR in a social media message that the potential shooters were disarmed before anyone was injured in the first two incidents, but three times feels like too many.
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That # was once again the most shared phrase on X, as it had been in the days following the shooting.
The Park MGM Las Vegas hotel was one of several resorts along the Vegas strip that lit up its marquee with what has become a familiar phrase: #VegasStrong.
It’s unclear how many of the 30,000 students were on campus on Wednesday, but Sheriff Kevin McMahill said a group of students had gathered outside the business school building at the time of the shooting, marking the end of the term with picnics and games.
When NPR spoke to Henry on Wednesday evening, she was still waiting to hear back from friends, students and colleagues, checking her phone and email for confirmation that everyone was safe.
For a few people, the fear was about how mass shootings are an inevitable consequence of living in the US and gathering in public spaces.
The suspect, victims or a possible motive are yet to be identified by police. The Associated Press reported that the suspected gunman was a professor who had recently been rejected for a job at the school.
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I didn’t think it was real at first. And then you say Oh, s**t. It’s my turn, I guess,’ ” he told NPR by phone on Wednesday evening. “That’s just the way it’s going. This is happening more and more often.”
According to the Gun Violence Archive, more than 630 homicides have been attributed to mass shootings in the United States this year. One poll released earlier this year showed that half of all Americans have been impacted by gun violence, with 1 in 6 having seen a shooting.
He had just stood in the crowd at a Christmas parade and wondered if he would get swept up in a mass shooting.
“It’s not gonna be the last time,” he predicted on Wednesday. “I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another, something like this, I don’t know, within a few days or weeks. That’s just how things are nowadays.”
When UNLV alerted students to the shooting on social media, the warning included the phrase “this is not a test,” followed by what’s become the standby survival advice: “RUN-HIDE-FIGHT.”
She was ordering a bagel at the recreation center when the shooting started. The next thing she knew, she was swept into a locker room with roughly 100 other people and spent the next two hours sheltering in place.