Rabat - A 17-year old gunman fired a shotgun and revolver inside Santa Fe High School, in southeast Texas on Friday morning, killing at least ten people, the majority of whom were students at the high school.
Rabat – A 17-year old gunman fired a shotgun and revolver inside Santa Fe High School, in southeast Texas on Friday morning, killing at least ten people, the majority of whom were students at the high school.
The suspect also injured 10 others.
Time reported that the suspect opened fire in an art class, according to several students.
A police officer was among people who were critically wounded due to the shooting, Ed Gonzalez, the sheriff of neighboring Harris County, said.
The 17-year-old suspect was placed into custody.
“There have been explosive devices found in the high school and surrounding areas adjacent to the high school. Because of the threat of explosive items, community members should be on the look-out for suspicious packages and anything that looks out of place.”
The shooting is the latest in a string of high school shootings over the past year, and follows President Donald Trump’s controversial statement regarding easy access to guns in US.
#UPDATE There have been explosive devices found in the high school and surrounding areas adjacent to the high school. Because of the threat of explosive items, community members should be on the look-out for suspicious packages and anything that looks out of place.
— Santa Fe ISD (@SantaFeISD) May 18, 2018
On May 4, Trump gave a gun law speech to the National Rifle Association (NRA), during which he criticized strict access to guns in France and the UK.
During his speech, Trump mimicked the 2015 Paris deadly attack and said if people were carrying guns “it would have been a whole different story.”
“They took their time and gunned them down one by one… Boom! Come over here… Boom! Come over here … Boom!” said the president.
Since the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, massive rallies have brought protesters to the streets and government offices in US states to condemn the the high death toll due to gun violence and protest against the availability of military-grade weapons and bump stocks, in addition to the absence of a universal background check requirement in the majority of states.
In March, hundreds of thousands took the capital by storm for the “March for Our Lives” protest, calling for stricter gun control in the country. The march came on the heels one of the deadliest attacks in the US, which took place in Florida at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, claiming 17 students.
Most recently on April 22, four young adults were killed at a shooting in a Nashville, Tennessee Waffle House. Prior to that, a lone gunman open fired on the audience of an open-air country music concert in Las Vegas, killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 400 others.
Police bomb squads have been also looking to dispose explosive devices planted in the high school, wrote the high school in its Twitter.
