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New Mexico high school shooting leaves three dead, police say New Mexico high school shooting leaves two dead, plus shooter, police say
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Three people are dead following a shooting at a New Mexico high school, according to local authorities. A shooting at a high school in a small New Mexico town left two students and the suspect dead, authorities said on Thursday as schools throughout the area remained on lockdown as a precaution.
Sheriff Ken Christesen of San Juan County told reporters that three people believed to be students died on Thursday at Aztec high school. State police did not release any details about the shooter but confirmed the other two people who were killed attended Aztec high school. The school of about 900 students was cordoned off as authorities cleared the buildings and teens were taken to another location.
He said the shooter was dead but did not say whether the suspect was counted among the three. A crowd of nervous parents gathered outside City Hall to wait for more information as officers tried to reassure them about the safety of their children.
Authorities said they had cleared all the buildings at the school and that students were boarding buses to another location where they could be reunited with their parents. “The families of the victims were notified immediately. They are in our thoughts and prayers,” state police said in a statement on social media.
Deputies with the sheriff’s office and surrounding police departments responded to the school after reports of a shooting. Federal agents and state police are investigating. State and federal authorities are investigating what led to the shooting and did not immediately release any details about the circumstances.
The school is in the Four Corners region and is near the Navajo Nation. Aztec is a rural community of 6,500 people in the heart of north-western New Mexico’s oil and gas country and near the Navajo Nation. Its main street is lined by old brick buildings that date back more than a century.