The university’s office of emergency management tweeted an alert warning that shots had been reported on campus shortly before 6:00 pm, on what was students’ last day of classes this academic year.Local emergency services said two people had been killed, while another two sustained life-threatening injuries and two more were being treated for less serious wounds.
The University of North Carolina Charlotte campus police chief Jeff Baker told a press conference that his team “disarmed” and took custody of the suspect after receiving a call around 4:40 pm that someone was “armed with a pistol.”A local Fox television affiliate identified the dead as male teenagers aged 17 and 18.
The perennial debate over gun control in America kicks up again at each shooting, a far too frequent occurrence. Efforts have always proved divisive, and Republican lawmakers have been highly successful at preventing what they describe as an assault on their right to bear arms under the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.