AUSTIN, Texas — A student wearing a dark suit and a ski mask opened
fire Tuesday with an assault rifle on the University of Texas campus
before fleeing into a library and fatally shooting himself. No one else
was hurt.
The shooting began near a fountain in front of the UT
Tower — the site of one of the nation's deadliest shooting rampages more
than four decades ago, when a gunman ascended the clock tower and fired
down on dozens of people.
Within hours of Tuesday's gunfire, the
school issued an all-clear notice, but the university remained closed,
and the area around the library was still considered a crime scene.
"Our campus is safe," school President Bill Powers said.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo expected the school to be "completely open and back to normal" by Wednesday morning.
Authorities
identified the gunman as 19-year-old Colton Tooley, a sophomore math
major. Police declined to speculate on his motive. Tooley's parents did
not immediately respond to a message left by The Associated Press.
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