Video: Gunman Kills 4 & Self At Northern Illinois University
Several people have been shot on the Northern Illinois University campus. The suspect killed himself and officials say the danger has passed.
Officials confirmed that several people were shot at Cole Hall, a large lecture hall on campus, shortly after 3 p.m. and the campus was immediately placed on lockdown.
Kishwaukee Hospital reported that up to 15 people were being brought to the hospital and that three to four of those victims had suffered head wounds.
Student journalists at the school’s Northern Television Center reported that there were 18 victims, two of them fatalities, including the gunman.
Lt. Gary Spangler of the DeKalb Police Department told the school newspaper, the Northern Star, that “The gunman is deceased,” adding that the “majority of the incident happened in Cole Hall.”
Officials said the immediate danger has passed.
A viewer who e-mailed CBS 2 said that her brother was in the lecture hall where the shooting happened. “He says that the gunmen was a white male dressed in all black. He kicked the door in and opened fire. My brother dove under the desk, and popped his head up to see the gunmen was reloading. He grabbed his girlfriend’s hand and ran to the library where they been in lockdown since.”
Katie Wagner, a student who was inside the classroom, tells CBS 2 that there were 70 students inside room 101 at Cole Hall when the shooting happened. She said the gunman entered from a side door near the front of the lecture hall and started to fire shots.
She described the gunman as white, tall, skinny and wearing a black tee shirt - and maybe something red.
She said she went to the ground immediately and just started staring at the floor.
The campus will be closed on Friday.
“Police are trying to get everyone off campus,” said student David Healy, who was near Cole Hall when the shooting happened. “At least five people have been pulled out on stretchers.”
An alert on the university’s website confirmed “several” people were taken away in ambulances.
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