One person was killed and two others were injured after a gunman opened fire in a building at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., on Thursday, the university police said. The gunman was also dead, the authorities said.
The shooting took place shortly before 10:49 a.m., when a gunman opened fire in Constant Hall, a campus building with classrooms and lecture halls, the university said. The Old Dominion University police, Norfolk police and other emergency personnel responded.
A spokesman for the U.S. Army Cadet Command at Fort Knox, Ky., told The Associated Press that two of the people who were injured were part of the university’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Daniel P. Driscoll, the U.S. Army secretary, said in a statement on X that two Army personnel were injured.
Two people who were injured were taken to a Sentara hospital branch, and a third took himself to a hospital in Virginia Beach, according to the university police chief, Garrett Shelton. One person died at the hospital, while two of those being treated were in stable condition.
Chief Shelton said at a news conference that emergency calls to 911 reported that “people were being shot in one of the classrooms.” By 10:50 a.m., the officials had determined that the assailant was dead. They did not say how he died or what led to the shooting.
The victims were affiliated with the university, Chief Shelton said. He did not give additional details about them.
Students told 13NewsNow of Norfolk that they were taking midterm exams and had seen a commotion or fight before hearing gunfire.
Chief Shelton said that law enforcement officers found students and faculty hiding as they swept the campus after the shooting.
The president of the university, Brian Hemphill, called the shooting a “senseless tragedy.” Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia said in a statement that her administration was in contact with local emergency responders as state support was being mobilized to assist the university and Norfolk.
Old Dominion University is a public research university with around 24,000 students.
Christine Hauser is a Times reporter who writes breaking news stories, features and explainers.
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