Shooting rocks Seattle campus
One person was dead, three injured. A student subdued the gunman.
SEATTLE - A lone gunman with a shotgun opened fire Thursday in a building at a small Seattle university, killing one person before he was subdued by a student as he tried to reload, police said.
Police say that the student building monitor at Seattle Pacific University disarmed the gunman and that several other students held him until police arrived at the Otto Miller building.
A man in his 20s died and a critically injured 20-year-old woman was taken to surgery, Harborview Medical Center spokeswoman Susan Gregg said.
A 24-year-old man and a 22-year-old man were in satisfactory condition. None of the victims was immediately identified.
About 4,270 students attend the private Christian university, founded in 1891 by the Free Methodist Church of North America. Its 40-acre campus is in a residential neighborhood about 10 minutes from downtown Seattle.
Jillian Smith was taking a math test on the second-floor of Otto Miller Hall when a lockdown was ordered. She heard police yelling and banging on doors in the hallway. The professor locked the classroom door, and the 20 or so students sat on the ground, lining up at the front of the classroom.
Smith said they sat in the classroom for about 45 minutes, before police came and escorted them out.
The incident follows a spate of recent shootings on or near college campuses.
Last month, according to police, Elliot Rodger killed six people and injured seven before turning his gun on himself in a rampage in Isla Vista, Calif., 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, Calif., in 2012.