A woman and a teenage girl were killed Monday morning in a shooting inside a St. Louis high school, authorities said. The gunman was also killed in the shooting, police said, and six others were taken to hospitals with injuries.
At a news conference, Police Commissioner Michael Sack said the injuries ranged from gunshot wounds to shrapnel wounds. Sack said the gunman was about 20 years old and hasn't been positively identified.The shooting just after 9 a.m. at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School forced students to barricade doors and huddle in classroom corners, jump from windows and run out of the building to seek safety.
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, armed with what he described as a long gun. Officers"ran to that gunfire, located that shooter and engaged that shooter in an exchange of gunfire," killing him, Sack said.One student, 16-year-old Taniya Gholston,"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.
The shooter’s gun jammed and 16-year-old Taniya Gholston made it out from Central Visual Performing Arts school.
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