PITTSBURGH — Police on Friday identified a gunman who killed one person and shot several others at a University of Pittsburgh psychiatric clinic before being shot dead himself as a 30-year-old local man.
They said John Shick was armed with two handguns traced to Texas, one of which had been reported stolen.
Police still don’t have a motive for Thursday’s shooting by Shick, who’s believed to have lived in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood near the hospital.
Police confirmed his name at a Friday news conference in which they released a more detailed description of the shooting. They said it’s too early for them to have determined if Shick had any criminal history or mental health problems.
Police confirmed what they’d previously believed was true: At least one University of Pittsburgh police officer shot and killed Shick to end the rampage.
The gunman had two semiautomatic pistols when he shot seven people, including 25-year-old Michael Schaab, of Edgewood, who was pronounced dead at the scene about 80 minutes after the shooting began, the medical examiner’s office said. An eighth person was hurt, but officials say that injury was not gunshot-related. The surviving victims are all expected to recover.