PITTSBURGH — A gunman who killed one person and shot several others at a University of Pittsburgh psychiatric clinic before being shot dead by police was identified Friday as a 30-year-old local man.
The man, John Shick, was armed with two handguns traced to Texas, one of which had been reported stolen, police said.
Police don’t have a motive for Thursday’s shooting by Shick, who was thought to have lived in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood near the hospital.
Police confirmed his name at a news conference Friday in which they released a more detailed description of the shooting. They said it was too early for them to have determined whether Shick had any criminal history or mental-health problems.
Police confirmed that 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.
The clinic was open Friday, and police and extra security could be seen checking employees’ identification as they entered the front lobby, where authorities say the shootings occurred.
The psychiatric clinic has 292 beds but reported more than 372,000 outpatient visits and more than 11,000 emergency room visits in 2010.
