US: 2 killed several injured in Missouri’s St Louis high school shooting, gunman dead
A gunman broke into a St Louis high school and shot two people before police shot him dead.
Several other people were injured in the deadly break-in, which is sure to reignite the debate over gun control in the US even after Congress passed a law earlier this year that tightened rules on access to guns for some people considered at risk. violence.
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On Monday morning, an unnamed gunman shot and killed two people at the St Louis Area High School of Fine and Performing Arts, according to local reports.
“We just thought it was just regular intruder training. But when we started hearing sirens outside and the teachers even started getting scared, that’s when we knew it wasn’t just a drill and it was real,” Adrianne Bolden, a freshman at Central VPA, told KSDK.
Another student, 16-year-old Taniya Gholston, told the St Louis Post-Dispatch that the gunman entered the room she was in.
“All I heard was two shots and he came in there with a gun,” Gholston said. “And I tried to run and I couldn’t run. He and I made eye contact, but I managed it because his gun jammed. But we saw blood on the floor.”
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones spoke about Monday’s shooting, calling it a “devastating and traumatic situation,” NBC News reported.
“My heart is broken for these families who send their children to our schools hoping they will be safe,” Jones said. Jones also tweeted “Help us Jesus” after the shooting.
Police reportedly entered the school around 9:10 a.m. CET shortly after receiving calls about a gunman entering the school grounds.
Officers responding to those calls exchanged fire with the gunman, who was hit and taken to hospital, where he later died.
Officials said at least six other people were injured during the shooting, with ailments ranging from gunshot wounds to shrapnel wounds to cardiac arrest, and were taken to area hospitals.
Police said the slain intruder was in his 20s, but have not released his name to the public.
Police also have not publicly recognized the shooter’s two victims, including a woman who died at the hospital and a teenage girl who was pronounced dead at school.
There have been more than 545 mass shootings or incidents where at least four people have been shot or killed in the US this year. These mass shootings include the killing of 10 at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and 21 at a school in Uvalda, Texas.
