A man shot five people dead and criticalꦜly injured a 13-year-old girl at apartments near United States' Las Vegas on Monday before killing self, authorities said Tuesday.
The suspected shooter, 57-year-old Eric Ad🌠ams, killed himself Tuesday morning as he was confronted by officers in a neighborhood, as per the North Las Vegas Police Department cited in an Associated Press report.
✃Authorities had launched a manhunt for him since Monday night's shootings in separate apartmen🍌t units.
Police said initially they found two women dead while investigating reports of a shooting late Monday at an apartment in North Las Vegas, the report 💟mentioned, adding that one of them was in her early 40s and the other in her late 50s.
As officers launched a probe, the department said they learned of a teen girl being taken to a hospitalꦫ with critical gunshot injuries, raising possibilities o💟f more victims in a nearby apartment.
Officers then found the bodies of two women i♊n their mid-20s and a man in his early 20s, the AP report said.
All five victims ඣhad been shot, police said and added that they weren't immediately identified.
This prom🧜pted an overnight search for Adams, who authorities had described as “armed and dangerous.” Just after 10 am (local time) Tuesday, pol🦄ice learned that the suspect had been seen at a business in North Las Vegas.
On reaching the area, cops saw the suspect with a firearm, running into the backyard of a nearby home. The department said officers followed him, but the suspect refused to drop his 🌜weapon and died by suicide.
The motive for the shootings has not been disclosed꧂ yet by officials, who havജe described it as an “isolated incident.”
A spokesperson for the police departmꩲent didn't respo💮nd Tuesday to phone and emailed requests for more information.
