The toll announced by the police in the city of Madison, Wisconsin, so far shows three dead and six injured this Monday, December 16. The suspected shooter was believed to have died before officers intervened.
Yet another gun-related tragedy in the United States. A shooting at a Wisconsin school on Monday, December 16 left three people dead, including the suspected shooter who is believed to be a teenager, and at least six other people were injured, according to authorities. Children are among the victims. The shots rang out at the Abundant Life Christian School, a private establishment that accommodates some 400 students from kindergarten to high school, Madison police said on social media.
Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said at a news conference that the suspected shooter was found dead by officers when they arrived at the school. It could possibly be a teenager attending this establishment. His exact identity and motivations, however, remain to be defined.
Two of those killed were believed to be a teacher and another teenager at the school, authorities later said.
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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. Such a traumatic event was repeated in May 2022 when an 18-year-old man shot and killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Between these two tragedies, a massacre committed in a high school in Florida, on February 14, 2018 in Parkland, triggered a vast national movement, with youth at the forefront, to demand stricter regulation of individual weapons in the United States.
The White House said President Joe Biden is being kept informed of developments. According to the K-12 School Shooting Database website, there have been 322 school shootings this year in the United States. According to this database, this is the second highest annual total since 1966, exceeded only by the 349 shootings recorded last year.
Update : at 9:57 p.m., with confirmation that the suspected shooter is a teenager, as well as the addition of the identities of two victims.
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