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By Carrie Antlfinger and Amanda Seitz, Associated Press
AURORA, Ill. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a suburban Chicago industrial park Friday, killing at five people and wounding five police officers before he was "neutralized," officials said.
Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman told reporters that the officers were fired upon Friday afternoon as soon as they entered the Henry Pratt Co. building in Aurora.
Ziman says the gunman was also killed.
Hospitals reported treating at least seven patients from the shooting, though their conditions weren't released.
The Kane County coroner was at the scene, and the Aurora Police Department was expected to hold a news conference Friday evening.
Live TV reports showed dozens of first responder vehicles outside a building housing the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora, a city of about 200,000 people about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Chicago.
Several ATF teams responded to the shooting and were at the scene, according to the agency's Chicago spokeswoman, and the FBI said it also was responding.
John Probst, an employee at the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora, told WLS-TV that he ran out of the back door as the shooting unfolded Friday afternoon. Probst says he recognized the gunman and that he works for the company.
"What I saw was the guy running down the aisle with a pistol with a laser on it," Probst said.
Probst said he wasn't hurt but that another colleague was "bleeding pretty bad."
The company makes valves for industrial purposes.
Police said the situation had been contained and that there was "no ongoing threat to the public," according to a statement issued by the Kane County Sheriff's Department on behalf of the Aurora Police Department.
The White House said President Donald Trump was briefed on the shooting and monitoring the situation as he prepared to depart for a weekend trip to his home in Palm Beach, Florida.
West Aurora School District 129 said on its website that it was keeping all students in their classrooms as police investigate, but that "teaching will continue with reduced movement."
Presence Mercy Medical Center was treating two patients and a third had been transferred by helicopter to another hospital, spokesman Matt Wakely said. Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital and Advocate Lutheran General Hospital each had one patient from the shooting, spokeswoman Kate Eller said. Rush Copley Medical Center received three patients from the shooting and all are being treated for non-life threatening injuries, spokeswoman Courtney Satlak said.
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