U.S. Shooting Leaves Four Students Wounded
KABUL: (MEP) At least four students have been wounded in a shooting incident on Monday at a high school in the US state of southwestern Ohio after a 14-year-old allegedly opened fired in the lunchroom, police said Tuesday.
Striking two students who were taken to hospital, authorities said, adding that two other students were also injured, possibly by shrapnel.
All the four students received non-life-threatening injuries.
According to the Associated Press, Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said that the suspect, who was apprehended with the help of a police dog, was a student identified as James Austin Hancock.
Jones also said that there was a motive to the shooting, but he did not identify that motive.
“No students can be picked up at this time as we are not allowing anyone in or out of the buildings,” said a Facebook post written by Madison Local Schools.
It added that the school and other local schools were placed in lockdown for several hours.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), firearms kill more than 33,000 people in the US every year, a number that includes accidental discharge, murder and suicides.
