Los Angeles:
A gunman shot and injured four people, two critically, on a Seattle university campus on Thursday, as witnesses recounted their fear during the shooting.
A lone suspect entered the building at the Seattle Pacific University, shot four victims, then "began reloading" at which point staff disarmed him and officers arrested him, Seattle police tweeted.
The Seattle Fire Department said four gunshot victims were taken to hospital "with wounds varying from minor to life-threatening."
A man and a woman suffered "life-threatening injuries," while another man and woman were in "stable" condition, police in the northwestern US city said.
Police at first said one suspect was detained and another on the loose, but a short time later tweeted: "The suspect is in custody. There are no outstanding suspects being sought."
They did not immediately confirm media reports that there were two suspects.
KIRO 7 TV said the two suspected gunmen were reported in separate buildings at the campus, citing witnesses as saying one came into a classroom and opened fire.
One student recounted hearing a loud bang from next to the classroom he was in. His teacher initially thought it was a science experiment, but someone went out and came back saying "I think someone's been shot."
"So we turn off the lights we lock the door and we close the blinds," the student, identified as Blake, told KIRO 7 TV.
"I was scared for about a minute," he added, recalling hearing shouting and someone running past the door.
After a couple of minutes, "cops come in through another classroom which was connected to ours and they escorted us out.
"I just saw piles of blood on the ground, just scattered throughout the lobby. And I actually stepped in a puddle... I saw someone was on the ground. Someone was on top of them, their hands behind their head."
The shooting came less than two weeks after a mentally unstable 22-year-old opened fire at a campus in Santa Barbara, California, killing six people before turning the gun on himself.
School shootings have become a tragic periodic occurrence in the United States in recent years.
They include the December 2012 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut that left 20 small children dead, and the Virginia Tech college shooting in April 2007 in which 33 people died, including the lone gunman.
A lone suspect entered the building at the Seattle Pacific University, shot four victims, then "began reloading" at which point staff disarmed him and officers arrested him, Seattle police tweeted.
The Seattle Fire Department said four gunshot victims were taken to hospital "with wounds varying from minor to life-threatening."
A man and a woman suffered "life-threatening injuries," while another man and woman were in "stable" condition, police in the northwestern US city said.
Police at first said one suspect was detained and another on the loose, but a short time later tweeted: "The suspect is in custody. There are no outstanding suspects being sought."
They did not immediately confirm media reports that there were two suspects.
KIRO 7 TV said the two suspected gunmen were reported in separate buildings at the campus, citing witnesses as saying one came into a classroom and opened fire.
One student recounted hearing a loud bang from next to the classroom he was in. His teacher initially thought it was a science experiment, but someone went out and came back saying "I think someone's been shot."
"So we turn off the lights we lock the door and we close the blinds," the student, identified as Blake, told KIRO 7 TV.
"I was scared for about a minute," he added, recalling hearing shouting and someone running past the door.
After a couple of minutes, "cops come in through another classroom which was connected to ours and they escorted us out.
"I just saw piles of blood on the ground, just scattered throughout the lobby. And I actually stepped in a puddle... I saw someone was on the ground. Someone was on top of them, their hands behind their head."
The shooting came less than two weeks after a mentally unstable 22-year-old opened fire at a campus in Santa Barbara, California, killing six people before turning the gun on himself.
School shootings have become a tragic periodic occurrence in the United States in recent years.
They include the December 2012 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut that left 20 small children dead, and the Virginia Tech college shooting in April 2007 in which 33 people died, including the lone gunman.
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