A woman is escorted from the scene of a shooting at a software company in Wisconsin where four people were wounded. The gunman was killed by police. Photo / AP

Four shot as gunman opens fire at US software company

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Publish Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018, 9:40AM

A gunman who opened fire at a Wisconsin software company, wounding four people and sending terrified office workers fleeing for safety, died of gunshot wounds following a shootout with police, authorities said.

Police in Wisconsin are conducting a secondary search of an office building where four people were shot to make sure there are no additional victims or suspects.

Middleton police dispatcher Danielle Kimball said officers are still finding people who've been hiding since the Wednesday morning (local time) shooting at software company WTS Paradigm.

City Administrator Mike Davis said four people were wounded when the shooter opened fire around 10am.

Davis says the fifth person, believed to be the shooter, was also critically injured.

Details about how the shooting unfolded haven't been released.

People are escorted out of the software company. Photo / AP

University Hospital in nearby Madison said it's treating four patients from the shooting. Two were in serious condition and one was critical. The condition of the fourth patient wasn't released.

St. Mary's Hospital said it's treating another patient for injuries that aren't life-threatening.

Davis said police have lifted a lockdown

An employee at WTS Paradigm said she ran for her life after hearing "really loud" shots.

Judy Lahmers is a business analyst at WTS Paradigm in the Madison suburb of Middleton. She said she didn't know whether to run or hide when she heard shots about 10am on Wednesday.

She said she ran out of the building and hid behind a car.

Lahmers said she knows one co-worker was grazed by a shot but was OK. She didn't know the extent of the shooting.

Emergency personnel at the scene the shooting. Photo / AP

She said the shooting was "totally unexpected." She said: "We're all software people. We have a good group."

Another company, Esker, is next door. Esker employee Gabe Geib said he heard a couple of shots but didn't immediately know what it was. He says he then saw numerous people running away from the building in "full sprint."

He said he and his colleagues were still huddled in their cafeteria, away from windows, more than an hour after the shooting.

Also on Wednesday, another person is dead and four injured after a shooting at a Pennsylvania courthouse, according to authorities.

Four people who were shot at the Fayette County Magistrate Court in Masontown, Pennsylvania, Wednesday afternoon were transported to the hospital, a spokesman for the Fayette County Emergency Management told ABC News.

- AP