Another U.S. school shooting

A high school student in California walked into class on January 10, armed with a shotgun, shot one classmate and missed another before staff “heroics” helped prevent further bloodshed. The 16-year-old gunman’s victim was airlifted to hospital where he was in a “critical condition” after the shooting at a high school in Taft, north of Los Angeles. After the shots were fired, a teacher and a campus supervisor arrived and engaged the shooter in conversation, allowing the rest of the 28-member class to get out safely. The suspect was taken into custody about 20 minutes later. The shooting comes weeks after the massacre of 26 people including 20 young children at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, which has revived America’s perennial debate about gun control.

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