Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – An active shooter call forced the evacuation of an office building in Dallas Monday. The building near the LBJ/Highway 75 interchange was shut down for several hours.
Police say they got a call about an active shooter around 10:45 Monday morning. They say they arrived to find the door to an office on the seventh floor locked.
“We’ve trained our officers to deal with active shooters by addressing the threat and trying to stop it, so we do not have multiple casualties,” says Assistant Police Chief Randall Blankenbaker.
Police used a shotgun to get into the office and found a man and woman dead. They believe the man killed his supervisor and then himself. Police then evacuated the building.
“SWAT officers then had to conduct an extensive floor-by-floor search to ensure there were no further suspects and to ensure all the tenants who might have sheltered in place were safely escorted out of the building,” Blankenbaker says.
On the floor below, some people hid in a closet when they heard gunfire.
“SWAT came up, knocked and the door and everything,” says one man who works on the sixth floor. “They got us out.”
One officer suffered minor injuries from broken glass.
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