KHOU reports that law enforcement have a single suspected gunman in custody. At least two police officers took fire, but no word yet on their injuries or additional victims.
The university is issuing safety advisories through its online Code Maroon emergency notification system. While law enforcement has a suspect in custody, there is no word on whether previous advisories remain in effect:
Avoid Area. CSPD reports an active shooter in the area immediately southeast of the intersection of Welborn Rd and George Bush Drive. Please avoid the area. Residents in the immediate area need to remain inside their residence. 12:29PM
I'll update as more details emerge.
Update #1
"One constable and at least one other person" dead, according to KHOU. Investigators announced that Brian Bachmann, 41 years old, was fatally shot after arriving first on the scene.
The university still advises people avoid the area.
1:54 PM PT: CNN is reporting 3 dead, 3 injured.
Texas constable and two others were killed Monday in a shooting near Texas A&M University, police said.
Rhonda Seaton, a spokeswoman with the College Station police department, told CNN that the three people killed were the constable, the man authorities say exchanged gunfire with law enforcement officers and an unidentified civilian.
A few minutes earlier, Asst. Chief Scott McCollum, from the same police department, told reporters that multiple people had been shot in the incident, which occurred around noon just a few blocks from the Texas A&M campus.
The dead included Brian Bachmann, a constable in Brazos County, according to McCollum. According to his Facebook campaign page, Bachmann was a 41-year-old Republican from College Station who had been a Brazos County sheriff's deputy since 1993.
A male civilian was also killed, the assistant police chief said. A post on the city of College Station's official Twitter page identified this third victim as a "civilian bystander."
Three others were injured in the shooting. They included two law enforcement officers, including one who was shot in the leg, and a female civilian who was undergoing surgery at a hospital, according to McCollum. College Station reported via Twitter that the two officers are at hospitals and "are said to have non-life threatening injuries."
6:42 PM PT: Gunman is one of the three dead:
The gunman, 35-year-old Thomas Caffall, also killed 43-year-old Chris Northcliff, a civilian. He wounded a woman from Houston and a police officer before officers shot him to death.