Television footage showed police military-style vehicles moving near containment lines, as well as dozens of young people being escorted through them.
One woman told local broadcaster KVVU that she had heard a series of loud noises and fled into a building on the campus, from which she was later evacuated by police.
“I was just having breakfast and then I heard three, like, loud booms,” she told the station.
“Then two more, and then police showed up there and ran inside … but then after two minutes boom, boom, boom, more shots. So I ran into a basement, and then we were in the basement for 20 minutes.”
Two hours after the shooting erupted, the university, which sits just a short distance from the heavily touristed Las Vegas Strip, continued to urge people to shelter in place, saying that police were working to clear each building in turn.
Brett Forrest, a reporter from the local KSNV told CNN he had been on the campus for an assignment, and was continuing to shelter in place with dozens of students and faculty as they awaited the all-clear from police.
“We are told that they’re coming building by building slowly letting out each building making sure no additional victims or anyone else inside so they might take a while,” he said.
Source: CNA
