A 15-year-old girl went on a rampage in the northern state of , killing two people, a member of the teaching staff and a student, and injuring six others, before killing herself, police announced Monday night (local time; in the early hours of this morning Greek time). .
There was a gathering in the classroom in which classmates from different classes and teachers participated, he explained.
The person who opened fire was “identified” as a 15-year-old, explained Sean Barnes, the city’s police chief, himself a former teacher.
“She was a student of the school and evidence suggests that she is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” he added.
The teenager used a gun.
US school shooter was 15-year-old female student: police
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The new mass shooting — attacks with the use of weapons that have four or more victims, in the terminology of the American law enforcement authorities — inside a school was committed at Abundant Life Christian School, a private educational institution in Madison, the capital of the state of Wisconsin of about 270,000 inhabitants.
Two injured children in serious condition
Among the injured, two children are in a serious condition and their lives are considered to be in danger, while another member of the teaching staff and three children are less serious.
Attack by a girl is extremely rare
The perpetration of such an attack inside a school by a girl remains extremely rare in the US, after all, only 3% of mass shootings in the US are committed by women or girls, according to studies.
The motive is not yet known. The teenager’s parents are fully cooperating with authorities and police do not plan to press charges, according to Mr. Barnes.
“Today is a very sad day not only for Madison, but for our entire country as another police chief holds a press conference to address the violence in our communities,” said Mr. Barnes earlier. “Every child, every person in this building is a victim and will remain a victim for the rest of their lives. Such wounds do not heal,” he added. He pointed out that in the immediate action a second-grader called to say there had been a gun attack at his school — urging reporters to realize what he just said.
322 school gun attacks in 2024
There have been 322 school shootings in the US this year, according to data from the K-12 School Shooting Database.
Sources: APE-MPE, AFP, Reuters, ertnews.gr
