By Associated Press - Thursday, May 3, 2018

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - The Latest on a shooting at a Northern California apartment complex (all times local):

9 p.m.

Authorities say one of two people wounded in a Northern California apartment complex shooting has died and the other is in intensive care.

The Marin County Sheriff’s Office says the gunman, an 80-year-old man, later shot himself.

No names have been released.

There’s no word yet on what prompted the attack around 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Mill Valley, about 14 miles (23 kilometers) north of San Francisco.

Authorities evacuated nearby apartments and asked other residents to shelter in place. They found the gunman dead in an apartment about two hours after the shooting.

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6 p.m.

Police say they found a suspected shooter dead of a gunshot wound in a Northern California apartment.

Marin County Sheriff’s Sgt. Brenton Schneider said the body of the 80-year-old man was found two hours after he shot and wounded two others in Mill Valley shortly after 3:30 p.m. Mill Valley is about 14 miles (23 kilometers) north of San Francisco.

Police had surrounded the apartment after the shooting. Schneider said officers found the man dead after entering an apartment he was thought holed up in.

Schneider didn’t release the man’s name or the identities of the wounded.

No other injuries were reported.

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5:05 p.m.

Police say they are searching for an 80-year-old man suspected in the shooting of two people at a Northern California apartment complex.

Marin County Sheriff’s Sgt. Brenton Schneider says police set up a perimeter where they believe the suspect is hiding out after shooting two people in Mill Valley, about 14 miles (23 kilometers) north of San Francisco. He declined to say how large the perimeter is. He says the man is wearing a white T-shirt.

Schneider said police who initially arrived on the scene Thursday afternoon carried two shooting victims from the scene and they were taken to a hospital.

Christy Cadle, a spokeswoman for nearby Marin General Hospital, declined to say whether two people from the apartment complex had been taken there.

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4:25 p.m.

Authorities say they are searching for a gunman who shot two people at a Northern California apartment complex.

The Marin County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that the two victims were taken to hospitals and perimeter set up around the complex in Mill Valley, about 14 miles (23 kilometers) north of San Francisco. Police told neighbors to shelter in place.

The office said the shooting occurred at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday. Video from the scene showed a sheriff’s deputy with his gun drawn shielding two people as they ran from the apartment.

No other details were immediately released.

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