The Latest: Chief says gunman didn't target specific people

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting at a North Carolina university (all times local):

3:15 p.m.

Authorities say the gunman who killed two students in a North Carolina college classroom didn't appear to target any particular person but did deliberately pick the building where it happened.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said he promised the father of one of the victims that his detectives will do everything they can to try to figure out why the shooter opened fire Tuesday in a classroom at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Former student 22-year-old Trystan Andrew Terrell has been charged in the attack that killed two students and wounded four others.

Authorities did not say how many students were in the anthropology class at the time of the shooting but said it was a fairly large class.

Putney says the weapon used in the shooting was purchased legally.

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2:50 p.m.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney says one of the two people killed in a shooting in a college classroom saved lives by tackling the gunman.

Putney says 21-year-old Riley Howell "took the fight to the assailant" after determining he had no place to run or hide in his classroom Tuesday afternoon at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Putney said that, without Howell's attack, capturing 22-year-old Trystan Andrew Terrell might have taken longer.

Putney said the fast action by university police also saved lives. The first officer in the classroom said he has been preparing for a horrible event like this for 20 years in his mind.

Authorities say Terrell withdrew from classes this semester.

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12:15 p.m.

A spokeswoman for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte says the suspect in a...