Shooting on Irving campus leaves 2 dead
Irving campus site of apparent murder-suicide
Two people were found dead Wednesday in an apparent murder-suicide about an hour after a shooting was reported at North Lake College in Irving.
The college was placed on an intruder lockdown at 11:43 a.m.: “Go to nearest room and lock-down. If not at campus STAY AWAY for your own safety,” the school warned.
About an hour later, Irving police spokesman James McLellan said officers found the bodies of a woman and a man. One of them was the gunman, and officials said the shooting appeared to be a murdersuicide.
McLellan said the two were found in different buildings, so it appeared that the man shot the woman and went to another location before killing himself.
Neither person has been publicly identified, pending notification of family members. It was unclear whether they knew one another.
“We’re just so devastated that something would happen on our campus,” Christa Slejko, North Lake’s president, said at a news conference.
Nasrin Nanbakhsh, a math tutor, said she was leaving the C Building when she encountered the gunman in a hallway. She couldn’t see his face and didn’t recognize the woman he was with.
The woman was sitting on a chair, facing the man, when he shot her three times, Nanbakhsh said.
“I didn’t hear anything,” Nanbakhsh said. “No screaming, no nothing.”
Nanbakhsh, who said she had been trained about what to do in a shooting situation, ran back to her classroom and told her students to be quiet and lock the doors. The students huddled in the back of the room.
Sophomore students Tony Oslovar and Zach Svensson said they heard the shots nearby. Then they heard Nanbakhsh crying as she warned students, they said.