Another Shooting, 2 reported dead, several injured

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And the body count may rise as the investigation continues....

TUALATIN -- A gunman who opened fire at a drug-testing clinic today killed one woman and injured several other people before apparently fatally shooting himself, authorities said.

Tualatin police reported the shooting at about 11:48 a.m. in the 7500 block of Southwest Mohawk Street.

Tualatin Police Chief Kent Barker said the gunman's body was found inside the clinic, and said his wounds were apparently self-inflicted. He said one woman was found dead. One man was flown by air ambulance to OHSU Hospital in Portland, while another victim was sent by ground ambulance to Legacy Emanuel Hospital.

Barker said officers were on scene within two minutes of the first call.

Kathleen Gorman, a spokeswoman for Legacy Health, confirmed that the shooting took place at Legacy MetroLab-Tualatin, one of the company's five drug and alcohol labs in the metro area and St. Helens.

The lab at 7587 S.W. Mohawk St. serves clients sent by private companies and the government.

It was unclear how many employees were in the building at the time. Gorman said it is a small facility that employs medical technicians but no doctors.

The lab, which takes walk-ins from the community, has no special security, she said.

"This is the first time that something like this has happened that we are aware of," Gorman said.

Officers from Tualatin, Tigard, Lake Oswego and state police responded to the scene. Police were taking statements from dozens of witnesses.

Shortly after the incident, witnesses saw one woman run from the scene covered in blood. At a nearby Subway restaurant, Mike McNeel tended to the woman who he said was not shot but injured by broken glass. McNeel said the woman told him a man started shooting at a medical clinic.

Bob Murtha and Kyle Stone passed near the scene at about 11:40 a.m. when they said they heard multiple gun shots, “We heard five or six shots,” Murtha said.

Mike McNeel, who works in Tualatin, was coming to Subway and found a girl fleeing down the hill in white labcoat.

"I pulled in she was kind of fleeing and bleeding, so I got her on the picnic table."

Bill Phillips said he heard shots while walking his dog in a nearby park and thought, "Man that's a gunshot." He said he heard three, a pause, then six more in rapid fire but it didn't sound like an automatic weapon.

Brad-John Gallup, a team manager at nearby State Farm Operations Center, was one of dozens waiting to be interviewed by police.

"We're just glad our people are safe."

Administrators locked doors at five Tualatin schools for about an hour because of the nearby policy activity, said Susan Stark Haydon, Tigard-Tualatin School District spokeswoman.

It was a precautionary measure because none of the schools were in danger, Stark Haydon said.

School officials are paying attention to any roads that will be closed due to the investigation because it may disrupt after-school bus routes. Police have told the school officials that buses will be allowed to pass through any police-blocked roads this afternoon. But if buses will be delayed, Stark Haydon said an automated phone message will be sent to parents.

Tigard school routes could also be impacted.

"If they are late in Tualatin, they'll probably going to be late on their other routes," Stark Haydon said. "Buses are going to have a hard time getting to schools and then a hard time dropping off kids."

At nearby Horizon Christian Elementary, 230 students were put on lockdown, which has since been lifted.

Four girls on their way to lunch said they heard three shots, a pause then two more.

"It just sounded like fireworks to me" said Belinda Yankey.

John Mann was driving back from the gym when he heard gunshots and thought it was "construction work and something dropping."

Source: Two dead, several injured in Tualatin shooting | Tualatin - – OregonLive.com

That's 3 shootings in a week's span of time.

Ya know, I don't know about you guys, but I'd think that censorship can be a good thing, for one simple reason, to avoid giving people ideas.

Back in the 1990s, when a postal worker walked in to the workplace and started killing people. Then followed I think either 2 or 3 more postal shootings. Then shootings at factories, a trucking company and so on. Everytime a shooting is reported, another follows within days & weeks time.

Same for when students commit suicide, another follows and so on. I remember locally here in the late 1980s we had 2 students committed suicide by hanging at a forest park in separate days.

I just think the media needs to back off and stop reporting these types of things because people are getting ideas from it.

How about the Columbine shooting? More followed after that, kids looking at these punks as heroes and wants to follow their example. There's too much tragedy that needs to be stopped before more people get killed or kill themselves.

Like I said, I'm not totally against censorship, but there needs to be some kind of restraint when it comes to reporting things.

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