Several Shot and Some Are Killed in Attack at Tulsa Medical Building, Police Say

Multiple people were shot and some were killed on Wednesday afternoon at a medical building in Tulsa, Okla., the Tulsa police said.

The assailant, who was armed with a rifle, was dead, according to Capt. Richard Meulenberg of the Tulsa Police Department, who said he was not sure if the police had shot him or if he had shot himself.

Captain Meulenberg said that the gunfire had apparently ceased and that the authorities were searching the building “floor by floor, room by room.”

Chief Wendell Franklin of the Tulsa Police said on Twitter that the police had responded to an “active shooter incident” near East 61st Street and South Yale Avenue in Tulsa and next to Saint Francis Hospital.

“Please stay away from the area and yield to all emergency vehicles as we deal with this response,” Chief Franklin said.

The Tulsa Police Department said on Twitter that it had set up a reunification site for families at Memorial High School.

The shooting came just eight days after 19 students and two teachers were killed in a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and 18 days after 10 people were killed by a gunman at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y.