St. Louis school shooting
On Monday, shortly after 9:00 local time (13:00 GMT), the shooter entered Central Visual & Performing Arts High School.
It was unclear how the guy got inside the school because the doors were shut.
Witnesses claim that after the shooter’s rifle jammed mid-attack, lives were spared.
Police “immediately halted” the shooter, according to St Louis Public Schools.
The suspect, who was thought to be in his 20s, and police engaged in gunfire before the suspect eventually died from his wounds.
His motivation and association with the 400-student institution have not yet been determined.
According to police reports to the local media, one adult died in the hospital and a teenage girl was declared dead within the school.
According to the city’s police commissioner Michael Sack, when authorities arrived and reported that the attacker had a “long gun,” students were fleeing the school.
He claimed that the seven security guards stationed there took swift action to alert other employees and call the police.
We are all experiencing a heartbreaking day, he remarked. Agents of the FBI are supporting the inquiry.
Raven Terry, a first-year student, told the local KMOV television station that the assailant had approached a classmate and asked, “You ready to die?”
The police response, according to Terry, “was that a student was doing the firing.”
“We just ran really, really quickly… and we were just sobbing and upset about it.”
Taniya Gholston, 16, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the shooter tried to shoot her in the classroom while she was inside.
She said, “I tried to run, but I couldn’t run.” We exchanged looks, but I managed to get away because his rifle jammed.
I’m tired of this damn school, the assailant was overheard saying, according to the witness.
Family members of one of the victims named Jean Kuczka, a health instructor.
