At least three people have been killed and five others injured in a shooting in and around Chicago, according to reports.
One of the dead includes the suspected gunman, who was apparently shot and killed by police, according to NBC’s Chicago branch.
The rampage began Saturday afternoon in the city’s Kenwood neighborhood, where one woman was fatally shot and another seriously injured, according to local station WGN9.
A University of Chicago student was subsequently shot in a nearby parking lot, the station reported.
When officers confronted the shooter, he reportedly ran into an IHOP in Evanston, a town 20 miles north of Downtown Chicago, where he took a woman hostage and shot her before exchanging gunfire with police in a parking lot in a dollar store.
The gunman’s weapon was found on the spot, Evanston Police tweeted; authorities did not immediately name the shooter and the victims.