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Police were in a shootout with a gunman inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Friday afternoon, hours after a shooter was first reported in the area.
"The officers inside the building have encountered the individual. As of about a minute ago, they were exchanging gunfire with him," Lt. Catherine Buckley told reporters around 2:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. ET).
At least four officers were injured in the shooting, she said. Local hospital officials said at least nine people were taken to medical facilities in the area. Details about their injuries were not immediately available.
The shooting, which was first reported around 11:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. ET), also left a nearby shopping center on lockdown as police searched for the gunman.
"We don't have the suspect yet and we do consider this still an active situation," Buckley told reporters earlier Friday. There could be hostages and there could be an additional shooter at large, she said.
"There are a lot of possibilities with this scenario," she said. "As I said, it is very active and we are working our way through it."
FBI teams were among those responding to the scene, agency spokeswoman Deborah Sherman said.
It was not immediately clear whether Planned Parenthood was the target of the shooting.
Police said the original 911 call reporting the gunman came from the building.
One Planned Parenthood official said the motive behind the attack was unknown, but pointed to what she called a "poisonous environment that feeds domestic terrorism" as a possible cause.
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