The gunman was taken into custody in “grave” condition, police said, as officers stormed Saugus High School in Santa Clarita — the latest in a relentless cycle of classroom shootings in the United States that have left around 300 youngsters dead over two decades.
“Detectives reviewed the video at the scene, which clearly show the subject in the quad withdraw a handgun from his backpack, shoot and wound five people, and then shoot himself in the head,” homicide captain Kent Wegener told a news conference.The teen was found among the wounded by first responders, said Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
Officers went to his home and his mother and girlfriend were at a local police station speaking with detectives.Seventeen-year-old student Andrei Mojica was in his government class when someone burst in and said there was a shooter on campus.The class of around 30 students followed their emergency drills and began barricading the doors with desks and tables, before waiting in silence, ready to wield a fire extinguisher as a weapon.
“All he’s said is he was walking through the quad and somebody started shooting and he turned and he saw that it was real and ran into a classroom,” she added.they had heard multiple loud bangs that “sounded like fireworks” and began to run. There is roughly one school shooting a week in the United States, according to Everytown for Gun Safety.
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