A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside a University of Texas campus library and then fatally shot himself, and police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said.
A man fired an automatic weapon on the sixth floor of the Perry-Castaneda Library in Austin early Tuesday, UT police spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon said.
"He subsequently shot himself. He is deceased,'' she said, adding that no one else was reported injured.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told a news conference that police also are investigating what he described as a second crime scene outside the library where shots also were fired.
Randall Wilhite, an adjunct law professor at the university, said he was driving to class when he saw "students start scrambling behind wastebaskets, trees and monuments,'' and then a young man carrying an assault rifle sprinting along the street.