Someone opened fire at a University of Alabama-Huntsville faculty meeting, with officials confirmed the death of three people and three others who were seriously injured in the shooting.

Ray Garner, a spokesman for the University says the person doing the shooting has been caught and is in custody, while another person has been detained for questioning.

All three people killed were faculty members, while of the wounded two are faculty members and one staff member, with no students involved.

During a biology faculty meeting Friday at the University of Alabama’s Huntsville campus, a women killed three people and injured three more.

While, Garner refused to identify the shooter or her victims, local television stations are reporting her to be a member of the faculty i. e. Amy Bishop, a Harvard University-trained neuro-scientist. Reportedly upset over being denied tenure, the biology professor has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of three colleagues on campus.

The three killed have been identified as Gopi K. Podila, Chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences and two other faculty members, Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson.

The injured are department members Luis Cruz-Vera and Joseph Leahy and staffer Stephanie Monticello. All three victims are being treated at Huntsville Hospital, with two of them in critical condition and one in stable condition.

Sophomore Erin Johnson talking to The Huntsville Times said there was a biology faculty meeting in progress, when screams were heard coming from the room.

The shooting occurring in Shelby Centre, a science building on the university campus was secured by the university police, while all students were cleared from it.

There are about 7,500 students on the Huntsville campus in northern Alabama, quite close to the Tennessee line.

The university campus was closed Friday night and all students encouraged to go home. Counsellors were made available for students to speak to, if needed.

Bishop, 42, charged with one count of capital murder, meaning if convicted, she could face the death penalty, was hand-cuffed and taken t the county jail.

A man is also being interviewed by the police as ‘a person of interest’.