According to a database maintained by AP and USA Today in collaboration with Northeastern University, there have been multiple mass shootings at 12 schools since 2006 that have killed four or more people. Men were responsible for all the attacks.
The database does not include school shootings in which fewer than four people died. Such cases have become very frequent in recent years. Just last week, for example, in Denver and the Dallas area, school shootings occurred two days apart.
Chronicles
Monday’s tragedy unfolded in just 14 minutes. Authorities received word of the shots at 10:13 am. Officers began evacuating from the first floor when they heard gunshots from the second floor of the school. Later, they said, the assailant fired at the arriving policemen from a second-story window. In response, the police opened fire on her and killed her at 10:27.
Late Monday evening, police released about two minutes of edited video of the attacker driving her car to school. Video later shows shots being fired at the glass doors and she enters through the broken windows.
Other footage from the school shows the assailant walking down a hallway with a long-barrelled gun and entering a room marked “church office.” He then exits this particular office and in the last part of the video he is walking down another long hallway with his gun at the ready. She doesn’t appear to be interacting with anyone in the video, which has no audio.
A police spokesman said there were no police at the school at the time of the shooting, as it is a church school.
President Joe Biden, speaking at the White House on Monday, called the incident another nightmare for the country and again called on Congress to pass a ban on certain types of semi-automatic weapons.
The townspeople mourned during the many vigils that followed Monday evening. At the Belmont United Methodist Church, the crowd prayed for the lost and sang hymns: “We must take a step back. We need to breathe. We need to grieve,” said Paul Purdue, senior pastor of the church. “We must remember. We must make room for those who are grieving. We must heed the cries of our neighbors.”
According to the Associated Press
Source: Kathimerini
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