The investigation is progressing in the United States into the shooting Monday in the state of Wisconsin. The person who opened fire at her school in Madison, killing two people and injuring several people, is a 15-year-old student, police announced Monday evening.
Shon Barnes, police chief in this northern US city, said the suspect attended the private Christian school Abundant Life Christian School. “She was pronounced dead during her transfer to a local hospital,” he said, adding that the student had, according to initial evidence, succumbed to “a self-inflicted gunshot wound.” “.
Victims between life and death
The student and the teacher who were shot died at the scene of the tragedy, Shon Barnes said. Among the injured hospitalized, two students are between life and death, two people are in stable condition, and two others have been released from the hospital, he said.
Outgoing President Joe Biden, for his part, described the shooting as “shocking” and “senseless”. He took the opportunity to once again urge Congress to “act” to pass more restrictive laws in a country which has more individual firearms than inhabitants.
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Repeated school killings provoke strong emotion in public opinion in the United States, a country which pays a very heavy price for the dissemination of firearms and the ease with which the population has access to them. More than 16,000 people have been killed by firearms since the start of the year in the country, according to Gun Violence Archive, with the NGO recording in 2024 at least 487 cases of shootings resulting in at least four deaths or injuries.
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