Two Teens Killed In US School Shooting, Attacker Dead: Police
Fakhir Rizvi Published December 08, 2017 | 11:05 AM
Two teens were killed in a shooting at their high school in the southwestern US state of New Mexico on Thursday, police said, adding that the assailant was dead
Los Angeles,(APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 08th Dec, 2017 ) :Two teens were killed in a shooting at their high school in the southwestern US state of New Mexico on Thursday, police said, adding that the assailant was dead.
The attack took place at Aztec High School, New Mexico State Police said on Twitter. The school is located in the small town of Aztec some 180 miles (300 kilometers) northwest of Albuquerque in an area close to Navajo tribal lands.
Initial reports of other people being wounded are wrong, San Juan County Sheriff Ken Christesen told a press conference. The identities of the shooter and those killed were not released. Garrett Parker, a student at the school in the town of 7,000, told the local tv station KOAT that he was stunned.
"Out of any state, out of all the states in America, you don't think it would happen here," he said. Parker said he was in history class when the shooting started. "At first it sounded like kids were just banging on the lockers.
But it started getting closer and louder and it was obvious it was gunshots.
We could hear gunshots from right outside our door," he said. The teacher had locked the door as he normally does and the students hid in a corner of the room.
"Right after we got outside the door, right outside the door, there was someone lying dead. But I don't know who it was," Parker added. Aztec High School was locked down and evacuated, while nearby schools were placed on lockdown.
Police set up an area in a park for parents to pick up their children, the San Juan County Sheriff's office said on its Facebook page. "It's tragic when our children are harmed in violent ways especially on school campuses.
We express our condolences to those families who have been harmed," Navajo President Russell Begaye said in a statement. Gunfire caused the deaths or injuries of 3,700 children and teenagers this year in the United States, according to the non-profit Gun Violence Archive organization. There were approximately 328 mass shootings, defined as involving more than two people.
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