Shooting at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, reportedly about the suspect's death

A university post on the X network reportedly an armed attacker was in the business school building and that police were reacting to other reports of shooting near student union offices.

Las Vegas City police wrote on the X network that a suspect “has been found dead”, about 40 minutes after initial shooting reports.

This is not a “test, the university wrote on the social network, advising students to hide. Student Matthew Felsenfeld said he and about 12 classmates hid him in a building near student union offices.

The time is when you call your parents and tell them how much you love”, said Fesenfeld, 21-year-old journalism student. He said he did not hear gunshots and saw no injuries, but said he saw from the windows as police entered the nearby building. Soon the police accompanied them outside the building.

An Associated Press journalist saw a fast intervention unit with FBI signs on the student campus, shortly after police reported the late suspect.

University officials urged those present at campus to continue sticking to someone said that investigative operations are still under way.

The university, with more than 39,000 students, spans an area of 134 hectares about four kilometers from the city centre of Las Vegas.

The shooting occurred in a city that still guards wounds from the attack on October 1, 2017, where 60 people were killed, and hundreds more were injured. The university is about five kilometers from the scene. / VOA