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| Kentucky high school shooting: two dead and 19 wounded, officials say | |
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| Suspect, a 15-year-old student, in custody after attack at Marshall County high school | |
| Break the cycle: it’s time to end America’s gun violence epidemic | Break the cycle: it’s time to end America’s gun violence epidemic |
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| Tue 23 Jan 2018 15.37 GMT | Tue 23 Jan 2018 15.37 GMT |
| First published on Tue 23 Jan 2018 15.25 GMT | First published on Tue 23 Jan 2018 15.25 GMT |
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| Two people were killed and 19 others were injured on Tuesday morning in a high school shooting in rural Kentucky, according to authorities. | |
| The accused shooter, who is in custody, is a 15-year-old student at Marshall County high school, where the shooting took place. Fourteen of the injured sustained gunshot wounds, while the others were hurt in the ensuing commotion. | |
| The Kentucky state police commissioner, Richard Sanders, said the alleged attacker was armed with a handgun. The teen will be charged with murder and attempted murder. Police did not release his identity, nor did they describe a motive. | |
| “This is a wound that is going to take a long time to heal. For some in this community will never fully heal,” the Kentucky governor, Matt Bevin, said. | |
| According to officials at a midday press briefing, some of the wounded were flown by helicopter for medical treatment. One student, a 15-year-old girl, died on the scene. A second, a 15-year-old boy, died at the hospital. | |
| Mitchell Garland, who owns a business near the school, said he rushed outside when he heard about the shooting and said he saw students running, crying and screaming. | |
| Garland said his own son, a 16-year-old sophomore, jumped into someone’s car and sped away, then made his way to his father’s office. | |
| The area’s congressman, the Republican US representative James Comer, called the shooting a “senseless and evil attack” that “horrifies us all”. | |
| It marks the first fatal school shooting the country has seen this year. It’s also the second school shooting in as many days. On Monday, a 15-year-old girl was injured after, police say, a 16-year-old classmate shot her in the high school cafeteria in Italy, Texas. | |
| Tuesday’s shooting happened as students gathered in a common area just before classes began. Sixteen-year-old Lexie Waymon said she and a friend were talking about the next basketball game, makeup and eyelashes when gunshots pierced the air. | |
| “I blacked out. I couldn’t move. I got up and I tried to run, but I fell. I heard someone hit the ground. It was so close to me,” Waymon said. “I just heard it and then I just, everything was black for a good minute. Like, I could not see anything. I just froze and did not know what to do. Then I got up and I ran.” | |
| Waymon did not stop running, not even when she called her mother to tell her what happened. She made it to the McDonald’s, her chest hurting, struggling to breathe. “All I could keep thinking was, ‘I can’t believe this is happening. I cannot believe this is happening,’” she said. | |
| It was chaotic outside the school as parents and students rushed around trying to find each other, said Dusty Kornbacher, who owns a nearby floral shop. “All the parking lots were full with parents and kids hugging each other and crying and nobody really knowing what was going on,” he said. | |
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