At least four people were killed and others injured in a shooting at a medical clinic in Oklahoma yesterday, according to police.
The Tulsa Police Department confirmed that five people total, including the shooter, were dead, with officers still clearing the building as of Wednesday evening.
Officers responded to reports of a man with a rifle at St Francis Hospital's Natalie Building, which then turned into an "active shooter situation". The building houses an outpatient surgery centre and a breast health centre.
"We're treating this as a catastrophic scene right now," Tulsa police captain Richard Meulenberg told a group of reporters.
Deputy police chief Eric Dalgleish said police were called at 4.52pm and arrived four minutes later, making contact with the suspect at 5.01pm on the second floor of the building.
He said the suspect was a black man between 35 and 40 years old, identity unknown, carrying a pistol and a rifle, and that he is believed to have killed himself. No police officers were injured.
Police do not yet know the shooters motive, he added, nor whether he was targeting any particular person or group.
Later that evening, police in nearby Muskogee said they were investigating a possible bomb, which according to reports may have been left by the Tulsa shooter.
An officer who had been inside the Natalie Building told Fox 23 Tulsa that one of the dead was found dressed in a doctor's uniform, while the other two wore nurses' clothes.
The shooting follows a string of similar attacks in Oklahoma and nearby Texas, where 19 students and two teachers were shot dead by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde last week.
Only ten days earlier, an alleged die-hard white supremacist killed ten black people and injured three others in a live-streamed terror attack on a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
Then, on Sunday, one person was killed and seven injured when gunshots erupted at a Memorial Day festival in Taft, Oklahoma.
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