2 dead in new US school shooting
LOS ANGELES (AFP) — A rifle-toting gunman killed a 14-year-old student at an Oregon high school Tuesday, the latest in a spate of US shootings that prompted a renewed warning from US President Barack Obama.
he gunman, said to be another student, also died in the shooting at eynolds igh School in the northwestern S state, taking his own life, according to media reports
olice named the ictim as milio offman, who died in a boys locker room of the school s gym building he shooter, who has not been identified, was found in a separate bathroom
routdale olice hief Scott Anderson praised the actions of two school resource officers who were among the first to respond to the shooting
belie e their uick response sa ed many of our students li es,” he said, while not confirming whether the shooter had killed himself or been shot
itnesses reported students and teachers cowering in classrooms as the shooting unfolded ne teacher also suffered non life-threatening in uries, police said
As the drama unfolded, li e pictures showed the increasingly common sight of students filing out of the school with their hands on their heads
y daughter was ust shaking and scared,” said one mother She was huddled in the corner of a room with some students and had the lights out,” she told KOIN 6 tele ision
hen a S A team person unlocked the door to her room she freaked out, thinking that it was the shooter coming in,” the mother, identified as Becky, told the broadcaster
Anderson added that, during the school search, another gun was found, and its owner taken into custody e stressed that this appeared totally separate from uesday s shooting
his was the fourth shooting in three weeks in the former ild est region of the nited States
n ay , a student with mental problems, the son of a ollywood director, went on a gun rampage at a college campus in Santa Barbara, north of Los Angeles, killing six people and then himself
n une , a gunman killed one person and in ured two others on on a college campus in the northwestern S city of Seattle, in what the local mayor denounced as America s epidemic of gun iolence ”
hen on Sunday, a couple with possible links to anti-go ernment militia shot dead two police officers execution-style in a Las egas pi a restaurant, before killing another ci ilian nearby and then themsel es
re ious mass shootings, like that which killed children and six adults in ewtown, onnecticut in ecember , ha e triggered intense debate about America s relati ely lax gun control laws