Iran Press/ America: A security guard shot a man at Washington's local Fox news station on Monday after he kicked through a pair of locked doors and tried to enter the lobby, US police said.
Commander Melvin Gresham of the Metropolitan Police Department told reporters that the man was apparently unarmed and was in stable condition at an area hospital, the Associated Press reported.
The incident just after 3 p.m. EDT (1900g) in Washington's Friendship Heights neighborhood put the Fox 5 news crew in the unusual position of covering their own shooting incident live from a building on security lockdown.
The channel broadcast security camera footage showing a man in a red, hooded sweatshirt kicking through the plastic or Plexiglas doors.
It also showed footage of the still-conscious man being loaded into an ambulance. The channel reported that the 38-year-old man was shot in the "upper chest" by a security guard.
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Meanwhile, a University of Utah student was shot dead Monday night outside of the dorms on campus.
US police scoured the area for a man they said she had a "previous relationship with, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Officers were searching for Melvin Rowland, a registered sex offender, who is believed to have gotten in an argument with the woman about 9 p.m. Several students on campus reported hearing the fight and then later gunshots.
When police arrived, they found the female student’s body inside a car near the medical towers, said U. Police Lt. Brian Wahlin.
Rowland, 37, was convicted of attempted forcible sex abuse and enticing a minor over the internet in 2004. He is described as a 37-year-old black male, roughly 6-foot-3-inches and 250 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray beanie, black pants, white shoes and a white hoodie.
Wahlin would not say how many times the student was shot or if it was before she got in the car. The university asked students to shelter in place on campus while dozen of officers patrolled the area with guns and dogs.
“We’ve got the campus secure at this point in time," he told reporters shortly after 11 p.m. "We are canvassing the area and all of campus."
Students peered down on the scene from lighted dorm rooms. A few nervously walked around the chilly scene.
Tyler Olsen, an MBA student who lives in family housing near the crime scene, said: “I just don’t feel safe now.”
The University of Utah was also the scene of a deadly shooting almost a year ago, when Austin Boutain fired five shots into a car killing 23-year-old ChenWei Guo, a computer science major from China. Boutain pleaded guilty in September.
Rowland, who was released from prison in 2013, and most recently listed his address as the Rio Grande area, was believed to be fleeing the area on foot.
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BUSINESS INSIDER reported, Americans are more likely to die from gun violence than many leading causes of death combined, with some 13,000 people in the US killed in firearm assaults each year, which translates to a roughly 1-in-315 lifetime chance of death from gun violence.
That's about 56% more likely than the lifetime risk of dying while riding inside a car, truck, or van. It's also more than 11 times as high as dying from any force of nature, such as a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood, or lightning strike.
These measures also suggest Americans are more likely to die from gun violence than the combined risks of drowning, fire and smoke, stabbing, choking on food, airplane crashes, animal attacks, and natural disasters.
In 2015, some 333 mass shootings left 367 people dead and 1,328 injured. The statistics rose in 2016 to 383 mass shootings, 456 deaths, and 1,537 injuries. In 2017, there were 346 mass shootings that led to 437 deaths and 1,802 injuries.
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