The shooting incident took place in this school of America.
A heart-wrenching incident has come to light in a school in America. A 17-year-old teenager shot and killed his own fellow student. 5 other students were injured in this incident. This sensational incident in the school has created a stir throughout America. Vice President Kamala Harris also shed tears over the murder of the student. He has consoled the family members of the deceased student. Also wished for speedy recovery of the injured. The incident happened when the breakfast program was about to start in the school. But the student got death instead of food as part of his breakfast. A teenager armed with a handgun and a shotgun killed a fellow student and wounded five others at a high school in the midwestern US state of Iowa on Thursday, authorities said.
The incident occurred around 7:30 in the morning. The shooting prompted a large police response, as emergency vehicles and armed units arrived at Perry High School, where classes could not begin for the day. Mitch Mortwaite, assistant director of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, said the victim was in the sixth grade, meaning he would have been 11 or 12 years old. He was present for the breakfast programme. But before that death came his share. This incident has created a sensation in America.
17 year old student opened fire indiscriminately
This incident was carried out by a 17 year old teenage attacker. Apart from the death of a Class 6 student, five others injured in the incident include four other students and a school administrator. According to officials, they also found an improvised explosive device in the school, which they defused. “Officers immediately attempted to locate the source of the threat and found that the attacker had also been wounded by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. However, without confirming the media reports, Mortwaite said the attacker was killed.
High school student Ava Augustus told a local TV station that she hid in her classroom during the shooting. When officers told her the incident was over she ran outside, and recalled that “there was broken glass everywhere and blood on the floor.” “I got to my car and they A girl was being taken out of the auditorium who had been shot in the leg.” Mortwaite said the injuries suffered by the five injured victims were not life-threatening.
no school today
The first day of classes for the new semester was scheduled for Thursday, according to reports. But after the incident, the school has announced cancellation of classes on Friday. Counseling will be available to students. The school is about 35 miles (55 kilometers) from Perry, the state capital of Des Moines. Just a day before, another similar firing was reported. In this case, a 15-year-old boy allegedly shot a person outside a high school in Virginia. It was not clear whether the two were students or not. Perry’s incident is the second school shooting so far this year. There have been 182 such incidents in America since 2018.
Vice President Kamala Harris and Presidential candidate Ramaswamy reacted
Speaking on the incident, Vice President Kamala Harris said: “Doug and I are mourning the loss of a sixth-grader who was killed on his first day back in the classroom at Perry High School in Iowa. We are praying for the full recovery of the students and school administrator who were injured in today’s shooting. We are thinking of the young people who have been traumatized by gun violence, and we are expressing our gratitude to the teachers, staff and members of law enforcement who immediately responded to the scene. Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy posted a video on Instagram of his meeting with two parents whose daughter was at a nearby elementary school in Perry that day. He wrote that our purpose here was to pray and reflect, to ensure that something like this does not happen again.
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