‘He was shooting everybody’: Gunman opens fire at a manufacturing warehouse in Illinois, injuring multiple people including four cops, before being apprehended by police
- The shooting started at 2pm at Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois, around 40 miles from Chicago
- Four cops and multiple civilians have been injured but it is not yet known if there are any fatalities
- Witnesses say the shooter is an employee who opened fire in one of the aisles, ‘shooting everybody’
- He was apprehended around an hour after the shooting began but his condition remains unknown
- Henry Pratt is a water valve manufacturing company which is one of the largest in the country
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Four police officers and multiple civilians have been injured in a shooting at a manufacturing warehouse in Illinois.
The gunman, who has not yet been named, was apprehended around an hour after opening fire at the Henry Pratt warehouse in Aurora.
Preliminary reports are that multiple people were shot including four police officers before the shooter, who went on the run afterwards, was brought down.
It remains unclear if he is alive or injured.
According to witnesses, he is an employee who walked down an aisle of the warehouse, shooting ‘everybody’ with a pistol which has a laser scope attached to it.
One witness said he arrived at 7am like he would on other day. He opened fire at around 2pm. Henry Pratt is a water valve manufacturing company.
The shooting was first reported at the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois, at 2pm on Friday. Police are pictured at the scene
A SWAT team has entered the building and dozens of other officers from the FBI and ATF are on the scene
An armed law enforcement officer runs towards the Henry Pratt Warehouse in Aurora, Illinois
One witness who spoke to ABC said: ‘I saw a guy running down the aisle, with a pistol, I recognized him as a co-worker and he was shooting everybody.’
The man added: ‘One of the guys was up in the office, he said this person was shootin’, and, he come running down and he was bleeding pretty bad, and the next thing you know he was walking back and forth, I heard more shots, and we just left the building.’
The Daily Herald in Illinois reports that four of those people are cops and that ‘multiple’ civilians have also been injured but police are yet to confirm the numbers.
The newspaper reports that numerous people have been taken to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital.
‘I saw a guy running down the aisle, with a pistol, I recognized him as a co-worker and he was shooting everybody
There are a number of fire trucks at the scene in addition to a SWAT team.
The warehouse is near several schools and a university. The schools have been placed in lock-down.
It is not yet known if the shooter opened fire before police arrived at the scene or if the gunfire started once authorities were there.
The police department confirmed the shooting on Friday afternoon in a handful of brief tweets.
‘We have an ongoing active shooter incident at 641 Archer Av. This is an ongoing active scene.
‘We will provide more information once confirmed.
‘We have an active shooter incident at 641 Archer Av. This is an active scene. Please avoid the area,’ said a second tweet.
Henry Pratt is a water valve manufacturing company. A witness who works nearby told Fox News: ‘We heard about three or four shots.
‘We had the kitchen open, the door, we could hear it. We heard three [shots],’ she said.
There are a large number of emergency vehicles at the scene but it remains unclear how many have been hurt