Four people, including the gunman, are dead after a shooting Thursday morning in downtown Cincinnati, police said.
Police chief Eliot Isaac said the shooter opened fire at the loading dock of the Fifth Third Bank Building after which he went into the bank lobby and exchanged gunfire with police, according to the Associated Press.
It is not clear how the shooter, who has not yet been identified, was killed.
Accounts of the shooter’s condition varied throughout the morning. Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld originally said police believed shooter was deceased, but later tweeted that he heard the gunman was in critical condition.
Sittenfeld said five people were shot.
Update (but still fluid): 5 shot, including shooter, who now being told is in critical but not deceased. Police & Fire doing exemplary job. https://t.co/qNX2eeyEAt
— P.G. Sittenfeld (@PGSittenfeld) September 6, 2018
Witness Leonard Cain said he heard up to 15 shots fired, and saw a woman walking into the bank with headphones on get shot.
“She walked in the door and he shot her,” Cain told The Cincinnati Enquirer.
The AP reports that Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley said the gunman was “actively shooting innocent victims” in what he described as a “horrific” scene.
