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5 killed, 5 officers injured in shooting at Illinois business

AURORA, Ill. — At least five people were killed and five police officers and other employees were wounded when a shooter opened fire at an industrial park in Aurora, Illinois, officials said Friday.

The shooting happened at Henry Pratt Co. building in Aurora, about 40 miles west of Chicago.

City spokesman Clayton Muhammad told ABC7 that the suspect had been "neutralized." In a later news conference, officials confirmed the suspect was killed by police gunfire.

Police identified the gunman as Gary Martin, 45.

Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman told reporters that the officers were fired upon Friday afternoon as soon as they entered the Henry Pratt Co. building in Aurora. Four of those officers are stable. It's unclear the condition of the fifth officer.

Workers at the plant said Martin was employed there.

Live video from the scene showed dozens of first responder vehicles outside a building housing the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora, a city of about 200,000 people about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Chicago.

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Several ATF teams responded to the shooting and were at the scene, according to the agency's Chicago spokeswoman, and the FBI said it also was responding.

John Probst, an employee at the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora, told ABC7 that he ran out the back door as the shooting unfolded Friday afternoon. Probst says he recognized Martin and that he worked for the company.

"What I saw was the guy running down the aisle with a pistol with a laser on it," Probst said.

Probst said he wasn't hurt but that another colleague was "bleeding pretty bad."

The company makes valves for industrial purposes.

Police said the situation had been contained and that there was "no ongoing threat to the public," according to a statement issued by the Kane County Sheriff's Department on behalf of the Aurora Police Department.

The White House said President Donald Trump was briefed on the shooting in Illinois and was monitoring the situation as he prepared to depart for a weekend trip to his home in Palm Beach, Florida.

West Aurora School District 129 said on its website that it was keeping all students in their classrooms as police investigate but that "teaching will continue with reduced movement."

Presence Mercy Medical Center spokesman Matt Wakely said that the hospital received three victims from the shooting. Wakely said two were being treated and the third has been transferred via helicopter to another hospital. No conditions were available. Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora did not immediately return a message about whether either hospital was treating victims from the shooting. No victims had been sent to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in nearby Downers Grove as of Friday evening, spokeswoman Kate Eller told The Associated Press.

ABC News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.