Police looking for suspect in any other campus, site of the infamous 1966 massacre sniper remained on lockdown.
Gunman wearing a ski mask and brandishing guns entered the library at the University of Texas at Austin today and fired several shots before his own life, university officials and police said.
The Armed suspect dies. No other injuries have been reported, UT President Bill Power wrote in an e-mail Campus.
Police are currently outstanding for each building on campus, searching for another suspect who wears the beanie, and carrying a long rifle.
The shooter was found dead on the sixth floor of the library from apparently self inflicted wounds, police said.
"We suspect the second is the possibility of work," said UT Police Chief Robert Dawson. "We will try to remove that chance." The first day of school already, "reported an armed man was last seen in Perry Castaneda Library," the warning and the site stay as students and faculty to students by 8:00 CST interested in an e-mail and text messages sent.
An email and text alert was sent to students and faculty around 8 a.m. Central Time, just as the day's first classes were beginning, warning that an "armed subject was reported last seen at Perry Castaneda Library" and telling students to remain in place.
"We are working on the possibility of a second suspect," said UT Police Chief Robert Dawson. "We try to avoid that possibility."
"I went to class, a little late," he said Robi Reeba ABCNevs.com. "I was walking out of the business school, and a man running next to me screaming 'there is a guy with a gun." I looked down and saw a man with a ski mask, a suit and carrying a gun attack. And I called the 911th "
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