At least two dead and four injured during a shootout at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte

At least two people were killed and four injured this Tuesday after being shot down on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, reported the news agency Associated press.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg police helps the security elements of the university in the case.

The university that has 30,000 studentsHe tweeted: "The campus blockade continues, stay in a safe place, watch the UNCC email and homepage."

Charlotte police reported in the social networks of the arrest of a suspect and he said that he had probably acted alone.

"The scene is safe, a person in custody. There is no reason to believe that anyone else is involved"he said.

Shortly before 18:00 local time (22:00 GMT), the UNC issued a sequestration order for shots on campus.

"Run. Hide. fight Protect yourself immediately, "said UNC to the academic community in public alert.

The The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has about 3,000 professors and administrative staff. Videos shared by young people on social networks show the minutes of crisis experienced after filming. Also circulate images of the broken glbad of the library door that is being sprayed by the floor.

The shootings in educational centers in the United States They have become commonplace in recent years.

Last year they happened two of the worst, with 17 dead At a school in Parkland, Florida on February 14 and three months later, on May 10, ten died at another institute, this time in Santa Fe, Texas.

However, the most serious of these types of school shootings occurred in April 2007 on a campus of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, when Seung-Hui Cho, a 23-year-old student, killed 32 people before committing suicide.

Until the shooting in a nightclub in Orlando, Florida with 49 dead in 2016 and a concert in Las Vegas, Nevada with 58 dead in 2017, the Virginia Tech was the deadliest shootout in history the United States.