At least five injured people were taken to hospitals around Abundant Life, Wisconsin.
A shooting at a private Christian school in Wisconsin in the United States, Abundant Life, left three people dead on Monday, including the suspected shooter, a student of the school, according to local authorities, who specified that five people had been injured and that children were among the dead.
The police intervention did not require the use of weapons, since the police found him dead when they arrived at the school. The school was evacuated. An investigation has been opened, although the identity of the shooter is not yet known.
Abundant Life Christian School has about 390 students, from kindergarten through high school, according to its website. During his remarks to the press, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said the shooting took place shortly before 11 a.m. local time (6 p.m. PST).
“Every person in this building is a victim”
“Today is a sad, sad day, not only for Madison, but for our entire country, where another police chief is giving a press conference to talk about the violence in our communityShon Barnes told reporters. Every child, every person in this building is a victim and will always be a victim. This type of trauma doesn’t just go away.”
President Joe Biden is being kept informed of the situation, the White House said. Gun control and school safety have become major political and social issues in the United States, where the number of school shootings has increased in recent years. According to the K-12 School Shooting Database website, there have been 322 school shootings this year in the United States. According to that database, this is the second highest total for a given year since 1966, surpassed only by last year's total of 349 shootings.
The epidemic of shootings has also affected Christian schools in recent months. In March 2023, a former student at Covenant School, a private school in Nashville, killed three children and three adults before being shot and killed by law enforcement. Last year, two students, ages 5 and 6, were shot and killed at Feather River Adventist School near Oroville, Calif., by a gunman who later died from a gunshot wound he suffered. was itself inflicted.
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