A shooting at a gym in Las Vegas on Friday left two people dead, including the shooter, and injured at least three others, authorities said.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers were dispatched to the Las Vegas Athletic Club around 1:30 p.m. after multiple 911 calls reported shots fired inside the gym on the 1700 block of North Rainbow Boulevard.
When responding officers arrived at the scene, they identified a male suspect armed with a handgun and standing by the gym door, police said in a news release.
The male suspect “attempted to run past our officers, causing them to discharge their firearms, striking the suspect,” Capt. Esmerelda Boveda said at a news briefing Friday evening.
Officers took him into custody and rendered aid until medical personnel arrived and took him to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, where he was pronounced dead.
“The suspect in this incident has been shot, and there is no longer a threat to the public,” LVMPD Undersheriff Andrew Walsh told reporters. The gunman had not been identified as of early Saturday afternoon.
One victim was found dead inside the gym, Walsh said, adding “additional victims [were] being treated for injuries we believe were caused by the suspect and the gunfire that took place inside the facility.”
According to Boveda, two victims were transported to a nearby hospital, one in critical condition and the other with non-life-threatening injuries.
A third victim “self-transported to a local hospital,” with injuries also believed to be non-life-threatening, officials said.
Authorities have not identified the victims or specified the nature of their injuries.
A man who was inside the gym at the time described the terrifying scene that unfolded during the shooting.
“They said get out, get out, get out,” Claudio Vigani told the local CBS affiliate KLAS. “Then I saw the dead guy next to the machine.”
The suspect was “shooting around,” Viagni said. “You could see the pool of blood pooling right there.”
In a statement shared on social media late Friday night, the Las Vegas Athletic Club said management was “heartbroken by the tragedy that occurred today at our Northwest club.”
The location is temporarily closed “as we support the LVMPD investigation,” the statement read.
