The official Twitter account of Oklahoma University in the US reported an active shooter on the campus and urged students to take shelter. The University of Oklahoma Police Department has reached the spot and the incident is being investigated.
“There is an active shooter at the Van Vleet Oval. Take immediate action now. Run. Hide. Fight!,” the official Twitter handle of the university had tweeted.
OU-Norman Emergency: There is an active shooter at the Van Vleet Oval. Take immediate action now. Run. Hide. Fight!
— Univ. of Oklahoma (@UofOklahoma) April 8, 2023
OU-NORMAN Emergency 10:04pm OUPD continues to investigate possible shots fired on Norman campus. Avoid South Oval area. Continue sheltering in place.
— Univ. of Oklahoma (@UofOklahoma) April 8, 2023
Nashville School Shooting In US
A shooting at a Nashville school in the US resulted in the deaths of at least three adults and three children last month. After a confrontation with police on the second floor of the school, the female shooter also died. She was armed with a handgun and two assault rifles.
Police said the 28-year-old suspect Audrey Hale was likely plotting a bigger attack as the manifesto “indicates that there was going to be shootings at multiple locations, and the school was one of them.”
Hale entered the The Covenant School, a Christian academy, with at least two assault rifles and a handgun from a side entrance and allegedly shot through a door, firing multiple shots while advancing through the building, as per the police.
There was confusion regarding the gender identity of the suspect as officials addressed her as “she” and “her” while a LinkedIn profile appeared to identify Hale as a man. Drake later identified the suspect as transgender.
Reacting to the incident of mass shooting in his country, President Joe Biden called it “sick” and said gun violence was tearing the nation’s “soul,” as he urged Congress to pass a ban on the assault weapons often used in mass shootings.
“It’s ripping our communities apart, ripping the soul of this nation,” he said.
