MURDER-SUICIDE STUNS STUDENTS
1 student in hospital after murder-suicide
Camilo Rocha, left, comforts his daughter, Serina, an 11-year-old student at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, Calif. The two were reunited after a teacher and student were shot to death and another student was critically wounded Monday. The suspected shooter also died.
“This is a tragic incident that has befallen our city and I assure you we’re doing everything we can to conduct a thorough investigation." San Bernardino Police Lt. Mike Madden
An 8-year-old boy died after an apparent murder-suicide Monday in a special needs elementary classroom in San Bernardino, Calif., that also left two adults dead, according to police, media reports and the Associated Press.
The boy was identified as Jonathan Martinez, who was airlifted to Loma Linda Medical Center after the shooting, KTLA reported. The boy died at the hospital, according to KTLA.
Police responding to a call at 10:27 a.m. found the suspected gunman, Cedric Anderson, and his wife, teacher Karen Smith, dead, KTLA reported, attributing the details to Police Chief Jarrod Burguan.
“We believe this to be a murder-suicide,” Burguan tweeted about the shooting at North Park Elementary School. “Happened in a classroom. Two students have been transported to the hospital.” Jonathan was one of those two students.
Police said youngsters were being bused to the campus of California State University “to be accounted for.”
Word of the shooting was unnerving for some in the San Bernardino community, the site of one of the nation’s worst terror attacks in December 2015. Fourteen people were killed and more than 20 wounded when a married couple stormed into a seminar and Christmas party for county workers. The shooters were later killed in a shootout with police.