According to the St. Louis police, three people are dead, including the shooter, after a shooting at a South St. Louis High School Monday morning, October 24, 2022.
Speaking at a news
conference, Police Commissioner, Michael Sack said the three dead included a
woman, a teenage girl, and the shooter, described as a man about 20 years old.
The horrific shooting
happened just after 9 a.m. at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in
south St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Central Visual and Performing Arts High School
is a magnet school specializing in Visual Art, Musical Art and Performing Art
with about 400 students.
Mr. Sack said security
officials initially became alarmed when the shooter tried to get into the
locked school building. He declined to say how the man got inside the school.
Mr. Sack said, “officers
ran to that gunfire, located that shooter and engaged that shooter in an exchange
of gunfire," killing him. Sack declined to name the victims and did not
say if the woman who was killed was a teacher or not.
Six other injured
people were hospitalized. Sack said some suffered gunshot wounds, while others
were struck by shrapnel. He did not provide any information on their conditions
or the severity of their wounds.
One student, a 16-year-old
Taniya Gholston, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch she was in a room when the
shooter entered. "All I heard was two shots and he came in there with a
gun," Gholston said. "And I was trying to run and I couldn't run. I
and he made eye contact but I made it out because his gun got jammed. But we
saw blood on the floor."
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