Three dead and six injured in a new shooting at a US school

Three dead and six injured in a new shooting at a US school

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Courtesy: NY Times

The police chief explained at a press conference that the attack began at nine. He also confirmed that an adult woman and a young woman were killed and six more were injured almost immediately for the assailant’s shooting inside the Central High School for Visual and Performing Arts.

The police, who responded to an emergency call about an ‘active shooter’, got to the scene ‘within a couple of minutes’ and exchanged fire with the assailant, who was hit by bullets and died, Sack added, the AFP news agency reported. the dramatic situation forced students to lock classroom doorsand place some in the corners of the classroomsjump out the windows and run out of the building seeking safety, witnesses said.

Shootings, especially on school campuses, are un scourge in America. In May, a teenager killed 19 students and two teachers in a primary school in the town of Uvalde, in Texas, in one of the events of this type deadliest in recent years.

In this context, Bills have been debated in Congress to limit the possession of firearms, but all have been shipwrecked by the majority opposition of the Republican Party, now in opposition. Last June, the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms in public, Even though the United States grapples with a increase in crime with firearms, especially mass shootings in educational centers.

Biden, whose Democratic Party will defend control of Congress in legislative elections on November 8, it was declared “deeply disappointed” by the Court’s decision, which, he said, “It contradicts both common sense and the Constitution.”

Also this Thursday, uAmerican teenager who last year killed four students at his Michigan state high school with a gun given to him by his parents, He pleaded guilty to murder and terrorism. Ethan Crumbley was 15 years old at the time of the events, on November 30, 2021, but He is charged as an adult and could face life in prison.

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