CHICO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 A shooting at a library in Northern California on Monday left two people dead and a suspect is in custody, according to police.<\/p>\n
Police responded to a 911 call soon after 5 p.m. in which the sounds of gun shots and people screaming could be heard coming from inside the Chico branch of the Butte County Library, Billy Aldridge, the city\u2019s chief of police, said during a news conference. <\/p>\n
Once officers were inside the library, the suspect fled out of the back, he said. Additional law enforcement behind the library took the suspect into custody, according to Aldridge.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe incident this evening was obviously very sad, traumatic for a lot of people. Very traumatic for our community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The streets around the library were closed temporarily and a family reunification center was set up for the people who were inside the building. <\/p>\n
A child was also taken to the hospital with a minor injury.<\/p>\n
Aldridge said there is no serious threat to the public and law enforcement are investigating the shooting.<\/p>\n
The police didn\u2019t release the suspect\u2019s name nor details on what prompted the shooting. Law enforcement said they believe the shooter acted alone.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement are also not releasing the names of the people killed until next of kin have been notified.<\/p>\n
The county urged the public to avoid the area and said all Butte County library branches will be closed Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The county in a post on Facebook offered \u201cdeepest condolences to everyone affected, including the victims, their loved ones, library staff, and all those impacted by this heartbreaking incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 A shooting at a library in Northern California on Monday left two people dead…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":886984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[276,15089,4219,57,4222,2936,50,3677,61,67,132,68,8572],"class_list":["post-886983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-california","tag-chico","tag-crime","tag-general-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-law-enforcement","tag-news","tag-shootings","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-violence"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116798999434399679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}