A separate post on the micro-blogging website added, "We have what appears to be one victim deceased [and] the shooter has committed suicide".
McLellan said the two were found in different buildings; the man shot the woman and went to another location before killing himself. The second person has not been identified. Following reports of the confirmation of the death of the shooter, college officials shut the school down for the rest of the day. "It's too loud, '" math tutor Nasrin Nanbakhsh said. I haven't seen her body.
"It's not easy, because this is the first time in my life I saw something like this happen", she said. "No screaming, no nothing". The students huddled in the back of the room. "But in his mind apparently he thought they were", Reynolds said. He said the police had received an unconfirmed description of the suspect as a white male with brown hair, wearing a white tank top.
Students were running out of the building where the shooting took place while police rushed to the campus and blocked it off. McLellan said authorities believed everyone had been evacuated from the campus. It isn't yet known if Torres owned the gun he had legally or if he had a license to carry a concealed weapon.
"Were those gunshots?" she asked the class. However if you need to retrieve any personal belongings, school leaders say you can visit the Central Campus Library and get a police escort on Thursday from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m.
"We'll also look at what we did, what we did well and what we can approve on and part of that is looking at staffing to make sure that we are fully staffed", she said. "The only thing that went through my mind was to run".
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"This is an emotional time for the North Lake family", said Slejko.
He said he grabbed furniture, mannequins - whatever he could find - to barricade the room's five doorways.
Lucia Gonzalez, the victim's mother, told the newspaper that Torres had been obsessed with and stalking her daughter, who had never been in a relationship with him - they were not even friends.
Around 11,000 students were enrolled at North Lake College in fall 2013, according to the school, with almost 80 percent of those students attending full-time. The campus will remain closed until Monday. Counselors will be available when students return.
Around 11,000 students attend North Lake College which is a public community college.
"We will do everything we can to keep our students safe", Leslie Weaver with IISD said.
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