Three people are dead after Monday’s shooting at a Christian school in Wisconsin — including the shooter — and six others were wounded, according to local officials.
Police initially said five people were dead after the shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, the state capital. But they later recognized the toll of death.
Journalist at CBS Chicago affiliate announced who police described as a “juvenile suspect” who killed the attacker in Madison. A law enforcement official told Press Associates that investigators believe the shooter carried out the attack at the school with a 9mm pistol.
“It’s a sad day for the community and the country,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said at the briefing. “We have to do a little better.”
Barnes said the police officers who responded did not fire their weapons. The shooter likely realized the death, Barnes said.
The White House said in a statement that President Joe Biden was briefed on the shooting and officials are continuing to work with local authorities to provide support. The Wisconsin The governor, Carmen Evers, was also briefed on the situation.
The school has about 390 students, from kindergarten through high school, according to its website. It sits on a 28-acre campus that hosts students from approximately 200 families in the Dane County area.
Local TV footage of the scene outside the school showed dozens of police cars, ambulances and fire trucks pulling up in the streets outside the school.
“We are praying for the kids, the educators and the entire school community as we wait for more information and are grateful to the first responders who are working to respond quickly,” Evers said in a statement.
The United States has had a long history of epidemics, on a scale unlike any other country in the world, but it is struggling with every significant effort to control the phenomenon, especially when it comes to limiting access to firearms.
Monday’s shooting at Life Abundance Christian was among nearly 490 shots in the crowd US until this year, according to the nonpartisan Gun Violencewhich defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more victims are killed or wounded.
Among them was the incident on September 4th at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, where four people – two students and two teachers – were killed and seven were wounded. He was a 14-year-old former student threatened murder in connection. And so his father was charged with giving the shooter access to a large-scale robbery and ammunition for what he had been warned enough to do. [the teen] at the risk of the body of another”.