Three people are dead -- a police officer, a male civilian and the suspected gunman -- after a shooting near the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, police said Monday afternoon.

 

Assistant College Station Police Chief Scott McCollum identified the officer who was killed as Brian Bachmann, a constable in Brazos County.

 

Jon Agnew, a spokesperson with the police department in the sister city of Bryan, which is helping with the investigation, said two other police officers and a female had been injured. The woman was rushed into surgery at a nearby hospital.

 

Police said the gunman was being served an eviction notice before he opened fire from inside a home near the university campus.

 

McCollum told reporters Monday afternoon that Bachman had gone to an off-campus home located near the university’s football stadium when the gunman began firing.

 

According to McCollum, more officers raced to the home after receiving a report that an officer had been shot. One of the officers shot the gunman before taking him into custody. The gunman died sometime later.

 

The university issued several alerts, beginning at 12:29 p.m. local time, about “an active shooter,” nearby. The school issued a “code maroon,” telling residents to avoid the area southeast of the intersection of Welborn Road and George Bush Drive.

 

The school warned residents in the immediate area “to remain inside their residence.”

 

The school issued an alert at 12:44 p.m. to say that the shooter is in custody, but to “continue to avoid the area.”

 

Sherylon Carroll, a spokesperson with the university, said most students were not on campus since the school year is set to begin Aug. 27.

 

"It appeared to be fairly quiet," Carroll told The Associated Press. "It didn't appear to be a lot of people out and about at that particular time."

 

College Station police Sgt. Jason James told CP24 that police received multiple calls about the shooting.

 

Earlier reports suggested that that multiple people, including law enforcement officials, had been shot.

 

Local media reports also suggested that more than 100 rounds of gunfire were heard.

 

Joe Brown, a spokesperson for the College Station Medical Center, said the facility received three patients with gunshot-related injuries: two who had gunshot wounds and another with shrapnel wounds.

 

Two other people who were in the area at the time of the shooting were brought to the hospital’s emergency room suffering from chest pains and dizziness, Brown told CTV News Channel.

 

Police secured the scene and blocked off the area.

 

College Stationis about 145 kilometres northwest of Houston.

 

The incident comes on the heels of two deadly shootings in the United States.

 

On July 20, 12 people were killed and 58 others wounded when a gunman opened fire during a midnight screening of the new Batman film in Colorado.

 

And one week ago, a gunman killed six worshippers at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee before being shot by a police officer and then turning his gun on himself.