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Two women have been killed and a toddler wounded in a shooting at a university campus in the US state of Texas.
Authorities said the wounded toddler, a boy about 2 years old, was in stable condition at a local hospital, Texas A&M-Commerce Police Chief Bryan Vaughn said in a briefing. He provided no more information about the women or the child.
The three victims were found by officers responding to a phone call by a student at 10:17 a.m., he said.
Earlier, the university said in a statement that police were actively investigating three gunshot victims at the residence.
Also in Southern California, at least one passenger was killed and five others injured after a man opened fire on board a bus that had left Los Angeles for the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Los Angeles NBC News station reported there were about 40 passengers on board at the time of the shooting.
California Highway Patrol (CHP) said the deceased victim was a female who died on the bus and that crime scene investigators were processing the bus which was parked off the highway at a Valero gas station.
CHP said the male suspect “voluntarily” exited the bus along the side of the road after the shooting, leaving the handgun on the bus, and that police apprehended him along the road shortly thereafter. He was transported for police questioning.
CHP Sergeant Brian Pennings Spoke told media after the shooting that in his 25 years on the job he had never seen “anything like this.”
The shooting is the latest in a wave of gun violence on US college and high school campuses in recent years.
The bloodshed has fueled the debate over tighter restrictions on access to guns in the United States, where the Second Amendment of the Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms.
In October, two people were killed and about a dozen more were wounded at an off-campus Halloween party near the campus, part of the statewide Texas A&M University system.
Many of the 750 people at the party were students, authorities said at the time.
