A 66-year-old resident of a senior housing complex in Rhode Island shot a 47-year-old female staffer there dead and injured two other women before fatally shooting himself Thursday morning, according to reports.
The shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Providence Journal reported.
His victims were all women, law enforcement officials said. One of the survivors was a 38-year-old staffer, and the other was a 66-year-old resident.
The violence broke out at the federally-subsidized Babcock Village complex, which provides 151 apartments to mostly low-income seniors in the waterfront town of Westerly, according to its website.
State and local police were at the scene, and the town’s hospital and schools were temporarily placed on lockdown, local station WPRI reported.
Early reports of an active shooter were posted just before 11 a.m. by SNE Alerts, which cited local fire dispatch reports.