Two people are dead, four were injured and a suspect was taken into custody after a campus shooting Tuesday at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on Tuesday, officials said.Police were called late Tuesday afternoon about a suspect armed with a handgun who had shot several students. Police disarmed the suspect, later identified by Charlotte police as Trystan Andrew Terrell, 22, and took him into custody inside the on-campus building, university police chief Jeffrey A. Baker said at a news conference.
"I can't tell you the sadness of the entire community to know that a situation like this has occurred on our campus," Baker said. "We are all pretty much devastated."
Three of the injured are in critical condition, Baker said. A fourth person was injured but was not in critical condition, he said. One of the three critically injured people was out of surgery Tuesday night, Baker said later.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said that no other suspects are being sought, and that charges are pending against Terrell.
Police were called about an assault with a deadly weapon involving an active shooter in the university's Kennedy Building at 5:42 p.m.
"I can't tell you the sadness of the entire community to know that a situation like this has occurred on our campus," Baker said. "We are all pretty much devastated."
Three of the injured are in critical condition, Baker said. A fourth person was injured but was not in critical condition, he said. One of the three critically injured people was out of surgery Tuesday night, Baker said later.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said that no other suspects are being sought, and that charges are pending against Terrell.
Police were called about an assault with a deadly weapon involving an active shooter in the university's Kennedy Building at 5:42 p.m.