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One student is dead and two others wounded after a gunman unleashed a wave of terror across the  Seattle Pacific University (SPU) campus on Thursday night.

The gunman, identified as 26-year-old Aaron Ybarra of Mountlake Terrace, was tackled by another student as he was reloading his shotgun. He was arrested and booked into the King County Jail.

Police say Ybarra arrived at the university with extra shotgun shells and a knife, in addition to his shotgun.

“He was hellbent on a killing a lot of people today,” said a second law-enforcement source briefed on the investigation.

But intervention from Jon Meis, a student working as a building monitor, curbed Ybarra’s violent killing spree. Meis pepper-sprayed the shooter as he stopped to reload, then put him in a chokehold and took him to the ground, according to police and a friend who spoke with Meis after the shooting.

Other students and faculty members rushed to hold the shooter down until police arrived.

“It was super-terrifying,” SPU sophomore Kharis Lund said of the fear and uncertainty that swept through the campus. “There were a lot of people crying and calling their parents.”

From the Seattle Times:

The gunman — wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt, skater sneakers and jeans, witnesses said — walked into the foyer of Otto Miller Hall shortly before 3:30 p.m. and shot three people, said Seattle police Capt. Chris Fowler.

When Meis saw the shooter reloading, he saw an opportunity to stop the attack, said Ryan Salgado, Meis’ roommate for the past four years. Salgado said his friend seemed to be in shock after the shooting.

A 19-year old victim was rushed to Harborview Medical Center, but was pronounced dead at the hospital. A 20-year-old woman was in critical condition Thursday evening. The third victim, a 24-year-old man, was in satisfactory condition.

Police are still searching for a motive in the rampage.

SOURCE: Seattle Times | VIDEO SOURCE: News Inc.