LAS VEGAS — At least two people have died following a shooting Monday morning inside a federal courthouse in downtown Las Vegas, authorities said. The suspected gunman was among the dead.
The gunman opened fire on a deputy U.S. marshal and a court security officer at the Lloyd D. George Federal District Courthouse, just south of the aging casinos on Fremont Street. The Associated Press reported that one of the wounded officers had died in the 8 a.m. PST shooting.
Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Roxanna Irwin said there was only one gunman, whose name had not been released. He died soon after the shooting.
“It looks like he went in there and just started unloading, we don’t know,” Barbara Morgan, a Las Vegas police spokeswoman, told the Associated Press.
Authorities did not identify the dead or wounded or
the extent of injuries. After the shooting, the court officers were
transported to University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
The courthouse is being evacuated as surrounding downtown streets remain blocked off, Joseph Dickey, a FBI special agent, said during a televised news conference.
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