Shooting reported on Amtrak train in Arizona

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TUCSON, Ariz. — Authorities successful Arizona responded to an progressive shooter country astatine a Tucson Amtrak presumption connected Monday.

Here is the latest updates:

10:23 a.m.

Tucson constabulary person secured the scene. TPD volition supply an update astatine the main presumption downtown aboriginal today.

10:11 a.m.

Amtrak said a shooting happened onboard Amtrak's Sunset Limited bid successful Tucson.

"The Sunset Limited, Train 2, was traveling from Los Angeles to New Orleans, and arrived astatine the Tucson presumption astatine 7:40 americium section time," Amtrak spokesperson Jason Abrams told KGUN9 via email. "There are 137 passengers and 11 unit members, with each passengers and unit present evacuated to the station. There are nary reported injuries to the unit oregon passengers."

9:56 a.m.

KGUN9 has confirmed that astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic was shot.

9:52 a.m.

Tucson constabulary responded to an progressive shooter country astatine a Tucson Amtrak presumption astatine 500 N. Toole Ave. Monday.

Police were connected country astir 8 a.m. Passengers were escorted from the bid and determination were aggregate gunshots fired.

Officers with K9 units boarded the bid during the investigation.

🚨TRAFFIC ALERT🚨

TPD on with different instrumentality enforcement agencies are moving a precise progressive country adjacent 400 N. Toole Ave. successful the downtown area.

Please debar the country connected Toole Ave. betwixt N. 4th Ave & N. 6th Ave. Information is constricted astatine this time, updates to follow. pic.twitter.com/SGNiTM2bPk

— Tucson Police Dept (@Tucson_Police) October 4, 2021

Police asked radical to debar the country during the investigation.

Phil Villarreal astatine KGUN archetypal reported this story.

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