Multiple people dead in shooting on Tulsa hospital campus | CNN (2024)

People embrace near the reunion location at Memorial High School following a shooting at Saint Francis hospital campus, in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 1.

There have so far been at least 233 mass shootings in 2022, according to the nonprofit organization Gun Violence Archive — including today’s shooting in Tulsa.

June 1 was the 152nd day of the year. This means there have been more mass shootings this year than there have been days in 2022.

CNN and the GVA define a mass shooting as a shooting that injured or killed four or more people, not including the shooter.

St. Francis Health System, which runs the hospital where Wednesday’s shooting took place, said in a statement on Facebook that all Warren Clinic appointments scheduled before noon on Thursday are canceled and some offices will be closed for the remainder of the week.

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Tulsa Police Department Capt. Richard Meulenberg told CNN’s Laura Coates that officials are not releasing the name of the shooter or any information pertaining to the individual due to the ongoing investigation at the scene, as well as investigations underway at other locations.

“So we’re still working with other agencies and other jurisdictions as this is related to a much bigger issue with this shooter,” he said.

Meulenberg said police do not believe anyone else is in danger, but they are looking at locations outside of the facility. He added that the police do not think the shooter was targeting the entire five-floor facility, but instead that he targeted the second floor and “went to this floor with purpose.”

After law enforcement breached the door, they found the gunman dead with both “a rifle and pistol on his person,” the captain said.

Tulsa Police Department Capt. Richard Meulenberg speaks with CNN on June 1.

Tulsa Police Department Capt. Richard Meulenberg told CNN’s Laura Coates multiple people were wounded in the shooting on the St. Francis Hospital campus.

Those injured are not suffering life-threatening injuries, according to Meulenberg.

He said investigators are trying to determine if those injured were wounded by gunfire or from the chaos of escaping the scene.

“We’re still figuring it out as people scattered and were carted off very quickly to this hospital and other hospitals with injuries,” Meulenberg said.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stittis seen in this Feb. 11, 2021 file image.

Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt issued a statement Wednesday after the shooting on the St. Francis Hospital campus that left four people and the gunman dead.

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Tulsa Deputy Police Chief Eric Dalgleish told reporters Wednesday the gunman in the shooting on the St. Francis Hospital campus used two firearms during the shooting.

Dalgleish says the gunman had a long gun, or rifle, and one handgun. The deputy chief said it is believed the gunman fired both weapons during the shooting.

Tulsa Police officers responded to the scene of an active shooting on the St. Francis Hospital campus within minutes of the first call, arriving while the shooting was ongoing, Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish said in a news conference Wednesday night.

“The officers that did arrive were hearing shots in the building, and that’s what directed them to the second floor,” he said.

The shooting took place in the Natalie Medical Building on the St. Francis campus.

Police say four victims were shot to death. It was not immediately clear whether the victims were medical staffers, patients or both. Dalgleish described the shooting scene as an orthopedic center.

Police said they were still working to identify the shooter and his motive. The shooter died from what is believed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and no police officers were injured, Dalgleish said.

“There will obviously be many questions, and there will be a very bumpy road, I think, ahead of us,” said Dr. Cliff Robertson, St. Francis Health System CEO, adding that the shooting was a “senseless, horrible, incomprehensible act.”

Four people were shot to death Wednesday at a medical building on the campus of St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said.

Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish said in a news conference that the shooter is also dead. “We believe that is self-inflicted,” he said.

Police said they have not yet determined the identity of the shooter.

Dagleish said the shooter had one rifle and one handgun.

Kalen Davis, 45, a life-long resident of Tulsa, told CNN she was waiting in traffic at around 5 p.m. CT when she saw multiple police cars responding to an incident at 65thStreet and Yale Avenue.

In the video she shared with CNN, police are seen running toward a building with their guns drawn. Two other officers are seen taking long guns out their trunks as more emergency vehicles race to the scene.

“I just knew that it was a shooting situation because I saw police running with rifles,” Davis told CNN. “That’s when I got emotional.”

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A White House official says President Biden has been briefed on the shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The White House is closely monitoring the situation and has reached out to state and local officials to offer support.

TheTulsa Police Department has scheduled a news conference at 8:15 p.m. ET (7:15 p.m. CT) to provide an update on a deadly shooting on the campus of St. Francis Hospital.

Police say they have confirmed that three people were killed, and the fire department says one other person was critically injured.

The shooter also is dead. Police have not yet confirmed whether the suspect was shot by police or the wound was self-inflicted.

Debra Proctor was at the Warren Building of the St. Francis Hospital campus for a doctor’s appointment on Wednesday when she said she heard police sirens ringing out.

She told CNN she was leaving the appointment when she stepped outside the front door of the building she saw first responders lined up everywhere.

Proctor has been a registered nurse for 46 years, she told CNN. Even with that experience, she said “this was pretty shocking.”

“Police were everywhere in the parking lot, up and down the surrounding blocks. They were still arriving when I was leaving,” Proctor said.

Three people were killed in a shooting at a Tulsa medical building Wednesday, Tulsa Policesaid. The shooter also is dead.

Police say they are continuing to clear the Natalie Medical Building on the St. Francis Hospital campus. A police spokesperson said earlier that the building has hundreds of rooms that must be checked during the evacuation.

Multiple people were killed Wednesday in a shooting on the campus of St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to the Tulsa Fire Department.

Little said at least one person was taken from the hospital with critical injuries.

He said they were told that the gunman “entered with a rifle.”

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is assisting on the scene of a shooting near St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the agencytweetedWednesday.

Tulsa Police say the shooting happened in the Natalie Medical Building on the St. Francis campus.

There were multiple injuries, police said, and the suspected gunman is dead.

Tulsa Police are evacuating victims from a medical building that was the site of a shooting Wednesday in Oklahoma, Sgt. Richard Meulenberg said Wednesday.

Police said the shooting suspect is dead.

Meulenberg said multiple people were shot, and it will take time to complete the evacuation.

“We have multiple floors… with hundreds of rooms and hundreds of people within the building,” he said.

“We’re treating this as a catastrophic scene right now,” said Meulenberg.