A shooting spree at a Pittsburgh psychiatric clinic by a man carrying two semi-automatic pistols left two dead - one of them possibly the gunman - and seven injured Thursday, staff and police said. The gunman had exchanged fire with police, officials said. The identity of the second fatal victim was not immediately released.
The shooter entered the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh by the front door and opened fire on the first floor and possibly also the second, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and other officials told reporters in a conference call. University police, regular city units and heavily armed SWAT teams quickly came on scene, although it was not immediately clear how the shooting ended or whether the gunman may have died by his own hand or police fire. "The police acted admirably and did engage in gunfire," Ravenstahl said.