The FIFA Women’s World Cup kicks off in Auckland on Thursday evening under the shadow of a shooting in New Zealand’s largest city that left three people dead and five injured.

Heightened security is in place for the opening ceremony and first game of the soccer tournament, which start just hours after armed police responded to a gunman on the loose at a building site in downtown Auckland. Workers fled or hid from the shooter, who killed two people and exchanged fire with police before being found dead in an elevator shaft.