Four people were killed, including a gunman, and multiple others were wounded in a shooting on Wednesday on a hospital campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said.
Officers were still working to clear the St. Francis Hospital campus, the Tulsa Police Department said on Twitter.
ACTIVE SHOOTER UPDATE: We can confirm 4 people are deceased, including the shooter, in the active shooting situation at St. Francis hospital campus.
Officers are still clearing the building. More info to follow.— Tulsa Police (@TulsaPolice) June 1, 2022
Captain Richard Meulenberg told ABC that police received a call about a man with a rifle on the second floor of a building on the medical campus and that “it turned into an active shooter situation.”
By the time officers arrived on the scene, “they found a few people have been shot. A couple were dead at that point,” Meulenberg said.
“We also found who we believed to be the shooter and still believe to be the shooter, because he had a long rifle and a pistol with him,” Meulenberg added.
It was not immediately clear how the suspected gunman died.
Tulsa massacre: 101 years later
May 31st-June 1st marked 101-years since the Tulsa massacre, when mobs of white residents attacked Black residents and destroyed homes and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Greenwood was known as “Black Wall Street” – as recently-emancipated African American residents had created a self-sufficient prosperous business district.
It is unclear at this time if the hospital shooting is racially motivated.
US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris issued statements on the 101st anniversary of the tragedy earlier on Wednesday.
Today, we remember the hell unleashed 101 years ago in Tulsa, where Greenwood was raided, firebombed, and destroyed by a violent white supremacist mob. It wasn’t a riot, it was a massacre. We must continue to reckon with the past and work to build a more just future.
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 1, 2022
“Today, we remember the hell unleashed 101 years ago in Tulsa, where Greenwood was raided, firebombed, and destroyed by a violent white supremacist mob. It wasn’t a riot, it was a massacre. We must continue to reckon with the past and work to build a more just future,” Biden tweeted.
101 years ago, Tulsa witnessed a terror attack on the neighborhood of Greenwood. Last year, I met with two survivors of the massacre, Mother Viola Fletcher and Mr. Hughes Van Ellis. A harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us. pic.twitter.com/LGPQfqLKmv
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) June 1, 2022
As reported by The Jerusalem Post