Tulsa shooting - live: Victim revealed as top WNBA doctor as shooter’s AR-15 and pawn-shop gun under scrutiny

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol bomb squad has cleared a home in the town of Muskogee, after police got a tip the Tulsa hospital gunman may have placed explosives there.

“No devices were found,” Muskogee police spokesperson Lynn Hamlin said.

“The fight for sensible gun legislation has been thwarted by Republican lawmakers in the pockets of the gun lobby — all cowards who only offer the usual ‘thought and prayers’, or tell the public that ‘now is not the time to talk about gun control’,” writes Andy Parker, whose daughter was killed in a shooting.

Read the rest of his Independent Voices opinion piece on what needs to be done to stop future tragedies.

Officials have identified the man suspected of shooting and killing four people at a medical clinic in Oklahoma.

Tulsa Police Department police chief Wendell Franklin said that Michael Louis, who they believe also died of self-inflicted wounds, was a patient at Tulsa medical clinic and was admitted to the facility on 19 May for back surgery.

He reportedly called several times afterward complaining about pain and sought “additional treatment”.

“On May 31, Dr [Preston] Phillips saw Mr Louis again for additional treatment. Yesterday, June 1, Mr Louis called Dr Phillips’ office again and wanting additional assistance,” the police chief said in a statement.

Johanna Chisholm has the details.

Read the latest details on the Tulsa shooting.

Republican Florida Representative Greg Steube pulled out several guns as he took part in a debate on gun violence via Zoom.

The House Judiciary Committee was discussing a package of gun control measures following a series of mass shootings across the US.

The Florida lawmaker was taking part via video call when he showed off his firearms while arguing against specific measures in the package that would institute limits on magazines.

“I hope to God that gun isn’t loaded,” Texas Democrat Sheila Lee said.

“I’m at my house. I can do whatever I want with my guns,” Mr Steube responded.

Here’s more from Gustaf Kilander who was watching the action for The Independent.

Two people and a shooter died Thursday night in another shooting reported outside a church in Ames, authorities said.

The church is near Interstate 35, about 48.28 kilometres north of Des Moines.

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Multiple people have been shot in a ‘critical incident’ at a cemetery where a funeral was taking place in Wisconsin, in yet another shooting incident reported this week.

The incident took place during the funeral at Graceland Cemetery in Racine on Thursday afternoon, the police say.

"There are victims but unknown how many at this time," Racine Police Department tweeted.

Graeme Massie has more:

Vice president Kamala Harris in an address on Thursday once again stressed the need for "common-sense gun safety laws" and claimed Joe Biden has done more to combat gun violence "than any other president".

"All of us hold the people of Tulsa in our hearts," said Ms Harris, "but we also reaffirm our commitment to passing common-sense gun safety laws.

"President Biden has taken more executive action to combat gun violence than any other president," she said. "But we cannot as an administration, or those of us who are here, address this alone.”

#ICYMI President Joe Biden delivered a plea for action on gun violence on Thursday as the nation recovers from a spate of mass shootings including horrific massacres in New York and Texas.

The president spoke live Thursday evening as members of the Senate, on recess, huddle to discuss possible compromise legislation in response to the shocking scenes of slaughter which unfolded at a supermarket and elementary school over the past few weeks.

Even those shootings, nightmarish as they are, risk falling into memory now in the face of violence that has unfolded in the days following those attacks in Uvalde and Buffalo, including shootings at a hospital in Tulsa and a high school in Los Angeles.

”There are too many other schools, too many other everyday places that have become killing places, battlefields here in America,” Mr Biden declared on Thursday from the White House.

John Bowden has the details.

The suspected gunman of Tulsa named as Michael Louis, killed five people, including himself, on a hospital campus on 1 June as the nation reels from a series of mass shootings across the US, including massacres in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York.

He was a patient at the Tulsa medical clinic and was admitted to the facility on 19 May for back surgery. He reportedly called several times to complain about subsequent pain and sought “additional treatment”.

Louis bought an AR-15-style rifle hours before the attack. He also purchased a semi-automatic handgun on 29 May from a local pawn shop, the police chief said.

Shweta Sharma has more details here: