The Perry-Castaneda Library, where the gunman took his own life A man wearing a ski mask and carrying an assault rifle apparently killed himself in the library of the University of Texas in Austin , Texas earlier today. The university was placed under lockdown and all classes were canceled as a result of the incident. Nobody else was hurt, but police are still looking for a possible second gunman. Art Acevedo, the chief of Austin police, said that officials are also considering the possibility of explosives left by the suspect. Armored vehicles were seen moving around the campus in response to the event, as well as SWAT teams , bomb-sniffing dogs, and police helicopters. An ambulance was seen around 9:00 a.m. CDT (1400 UTC ) at the University of Texas' Perry-Castaneda library. Police said that the gun used in the shooting was an AK-47 , and that they were examining two different crime scenes: where the shots were fired outside, and where the gunman was found dead in the library. Police would not say whether he was attending the university. Chief Acevado said that there were "reports of a second suspect that was wearing a beanie with a long rifle, wearing blue jeans and a black top" that "may or may not be a white male." The school was also the site of a shooting spree on August 1, 1966, in which university student Charles Whitman fatally shot fourteen to sixteen people and wounded another 32 before being himself killed by law enforcement authorities; reports of the exact death toll are inconsistent. Whitman, a former U.S. Marine , shot students from the observation platform of the school's tower. That event was the deadliest school shooting in the United States until the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre .
The Perry-Castaneda Library, where the gunman took his own life A man wearing a ski mask and carrying an apparently killed himself in the library of the in , Texas earlier today. The university was placed under lockdown and all classes were canceled as a result of the incident. Nobody else was hurt, but police are still looking for a possible second gunman. Art Acevedo, the chief of Austin police, said that officials are also considering the possibility of explosives left by the suspect. Armored vehicles were seen moving around the campus in response to the event, as well as w|SWAT team|SWAT teams , bomb-sniffing dogs, and police helicopters. An ambulance was seen around 9:00 a.m. (1400 ) at the University of Texas' Perry-Castaneda library. Police said that the gun used in the shooting was an , and that they were examining two different crime scenes: where the shots were fired outside, and where the gunman was found dead in the library. Police would not say whether he was attending the university. Chief Acevado said that there were "reports of a second suspect that was wearing a beanie with a long rifle, wearing blue jeans and a black top" that "may or may not be a white male." The school was also the site of a shooting spree on August 1, 1966, in which university student fatally shot fourteen to sixteen people and wounded another 32 before being himself killed by law enforcement authorities; reports of the exact death toll are inconsistent. Whitman, a former , shot students from the observation platform of the school's tower. That event was the deadliest school shooting in the United States until the 2007 .
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