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Multiple people have been killed in a mass shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Wednesday, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said officers were responding to reports of an active shooter on the campus, near Beam Hall, which houses the Lee Business School. The suspect “has been located and is deceased,” police said.
UNLV and all other Nevada public higher education institutions have been closed for the rest of the day, the university said.
The U.S. hit a grim milestone on gun violence on Sunday, with 38 recorded mass killings involving guns this year, defined as shootings in which four people or more are killed, not including the shooter.
UNLV is roughly 3 miles from the location of the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history. In 2017, a gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel into the crowd at the Route 91 music festival, killing 58 people and injuring roughly 500 others.
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