‘Hero’ student disarms gunman with pepper spray

A student pepper-sprayed a lone gunman who had already killed one man at a US university while he paused to reload, helping to prevent more deaths, police have said.

A 19-year-old man was fatally shot and two other young people were wounded after the gunman opened fire in the foyer of Otto Miller Hall in Seattle Pacific University.

When the gunman paused to reload his shotgun, he was pepper-sprayed, and a student building monitor disarmed him while other students helped pin him to the floor.