A shooting occurred at a high school in St. Louis on Monday morning, October 24, according to St. Louis police, leaving three people dead, including the shooter.
Police Commissioner Michael Sack revealed during a press conference that the three fatalities comprised a woman, a teenage girl, and the shooter, who was described as a male in his early 20s.
South St. Louis, Missouri’s Central Visual and Performing Arts High School was the scene of a gunshot shortly after 9 a.m.
Students hid in corners of classrooms and closed doors as soon as the shooting began. Others fled the building and sprang from windows in search of safety.
Sack claimed that when the gunman attempted to enter the secured school building, security personnel at first got concerned. He chose not to explain how the stranger entered.
Sack said officers “ran to that gunfire, located that shooter and engaged that shooter in an exchange of gunfire,” killing him.
Sack refused to identify the victims and would not specify whether the deceased woman was a teacher.
Admitted to hospital were six further injured patients. Sack claimed that some people had gunshot wounds and others were hit by shrapnel. He said nothing about their health situations.
Taniya Gholston, 16, a student, said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch she was in a room when the shooter entered the school.
“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. Me and him made eye contact but I made it out because his gun got jammed. But we saw blood on the floor.”
Nylah Jones, a ninth-grader, claimed to have been in math class when the shooter opened firing from the corridor, according to the Post-Dispatch. She claimed that when kids gathered in a corner of the room, the gunman was unable to enter and began to pound on the door.
A magnet school with roughly 400 students, Central Visual and Performing Arts High School focuses on visual, musical, and performing arts.
Source; www.ghgossip.com
