Two Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide That Locked Down North Lake College

By Jenn Jacques

Late Wednesday morning, North Lake College in Irving, TX was placed on lockdown for an active shooter situation after a man came onto the campus with a firearm, shot a female student and took his own life.

Irving Police responded to the active shooter call at the community college campus around 11:30 a.m. Once there, they discovered the body of Janeera Nickol Gonzalez, 20, inside the Performance Hall Building.

After searching the adjoining buildings, officers found the body of a 21-year-old male inside a locker room shower stall in Building “F”. Police said he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

After the gunman began shooting, students were immediately evacuated while others were forced to take shelter in place as police arrived and began searching the campus for the suspect.

“I reached a big hall and I just saw a guy, and someone was sitting in a chair, and the guy was standing in front of her and shot her three times,” said Nasrin Nanbakhsh, a North Lake College math tutor with the college for 20 years. “I immediately ran back to the room where I’m working. We’re trained in emergencies and I was thinking of those steps we need to do so …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms