investigators say the suspect is not a student though, and are trying to determine why all this happened, why he started shooting. we're live in seattle with the latest. what more are we learning about this? >> reporter: good morning. at this point, authorities say they cannot determine a connection between the alleged shooter and the university or any of his victims. why we came remains a mystery. thanks to a very quick-thinking student, this tragedy could have been a whole lot worse. it's happened once again. >> we heard a shot. we thought it was an experiment at first. but then we heard screaming. >> reporter: this time, a scoot shooting hitting seattle pacific university in washington state. >> we had a young male enter the hall on the seattle pacific university campus. was armed with a shotgun. >> reporter: it was just around 3:20 in the afternoon when the first calls came in. >> we saw blood on the carpet,