Two Students Dead, Three Injured in Shooting at Southern California High School

‘TRAUMATIC’

Pilar Melendez

Reporter 

KHTS RADIO via REUTERS

A 16-year-old student opened fire at a public high school in Southern California
Thursday morning, killing two of his classmates and injuring three others, authorities said.

The suspected gunman, who launched the deadly assault at Saugus High School on his birthday, was taken into custody and is currently in “grave condition” at a local hospital from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to authorities.

Police and firefighters responded around 7:40 a.m. Thursday to reports of a shooting at the school in Santa Clarita, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles.

Video footage from the scene shows “the subject in the quad withdraw a handgun from his backpack, shoot and wound five people, and then shoot himself in the head,” authorities said.

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I come to school to learn. Not to get fucking shot. One of the worst experiences ever. #EnoughIsEnough

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L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Kent Wegener said the suspect used a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol, which was recovered at the scene with no more rounds in it. Wegener said the officers who first arrived at the scene found six students with gunshot wounds in the school’s quad and transported them to local hospitals, later realizing one of them was the gunman.