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LAST UPDATE | 30 Nov 2021
THREE STUDENTS HAVE been killed and six people injured in a high school shooting in the US, according to officials.
Oakland County Sheriff’s Office in Michigan said the attack happened this afternoon at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, a community of about 22,000 people 48km north of Detroit.
A 15-year-old was arrested and a handgun was recovered.
One of the injured people was a teacher, authorities said.
Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe said at a news conference that he did not know what the assailant’s motives were for the attack.
Officers responded at around 12.55pm to a flood of 911 calls about an active shooter at the school, McCabe said. Authorities arrested the suspect at the school and recovered a semi-automatic handgun and several clips.
“Deputies confronted him, he had the weapon on him, they took him into custody,” McCabe said, declining to share more details about the arrest.
The authorities did not immediately release the names of the suspect or victims.
Tim Throne, the superintendent of Oxford Community Schools, said he did not know yet know the victims’ names or whether their families had been contacted.
“I’m shocked. It’s devastating,” the superintendent told reporters.
The school was placed on lockdown after the attack, with some children sheltering in locked classrooms while officers searched the premises. They were later taken to a nearby supermarket to be picked up by their parents.
Isabel Flores told WJBK-TV that she and other students heard gunshots and saw another student bleeding from the face.
They then ran from the area through the rear of the school, said Isabel, 15.
McCabe said investigators would be looking through social media posts for any evidence of a possible motive.
Robin Redding said her son had stayed at home today. She said he had heard threats of a shooting at the school.
“This couldn’t be just random,” she said.
Redding did not provide specifics about what her son had heard, but she expressed concern about school safety in general.
“Kids just, like they’re just mad at each other at this school,” she said.
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Those gun laws are really working well I see, the NRA should be ashamed of its self.
And nothing will ever change over there as a result of their completely broken political system, money in politics, and their media. It’s all so toxic and polarised over there. You’re either pro-gun or anti-gun, and there is no room for grey areas in between. That kind of rhetoric results in not even being able to have a discussion with the other side and the current stalemate they are in with regard to gun legislation.
@Tomo: not true to say everyone is either pro or anti-gun. Lots of gun owners feel there should be more robust laws governing gun ownership.
What’s wrong with Americans, they are so gung-ho. The country is permanently at war.
@Bernard A Kavanagh: Their political system and media have gone to war with them.
@Bernard A Kavanagh: I moved to the US in 2002. I turned on the local “News at 11″ and one of the first stories was how a plastic knife could be smuggled on a plane and they showed a plastic knife being stabbed into a slab of beef.
Majority of their news shows are DESIGNED to scare the viewers (NPR probably not so much).
It would be like “At 11,whats in your kitchen drawer that could KILL YOUR KIDS!!!”
It’s all scary hyperbole, it’s no wonder people genuinely think they need loads of guns to “defend their home” as if there are marauding hoards coming for them.
I noticed it immediately.
When there not at war somewhere else they are at war with themselves
In America, more innocent people are killed than guilty people. Says it all really.
At this stage removing guns may not solve the problem. Anyone remember last week when a guy used his SUV at the Christmas parade.
@james s: To be fair there’s usually gun involvement. Gun laws would go a very long way.
America – say no more
I feel sorry for the Americans really, like even if they wanted to change their laws drastically, how in the hell do you even begin to take guns off almost 400 million people.
Their constitution is so important to them, which I can understand.
If we had the same laws here for 10 generation’s, god knows how we’d look as a country.
Thoughts and prayers
I dont get it these schools have like airport customs before you even get into them how is a 15 year old getting in with a gun without bleeping , plus how is no one noticing a sketchy looking 15 year old , ya would of thought thered be new precautions by now instead of , oops theres another few kids dead lets lock up the shooter and hope it doesnt happen again .
Close all the schools and the problem will be sorted. They can learn from home anyway
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