15 year old student kills two in American school

A 15-year-old schoolgirl has been identified by police as the attacker who opened fire at a school in the US state of Wisconsin where her classmate and a teacher were killed and the girl was found dead.
Sean Burns, police chief in the state capital of Madison, told a press briefing that three people died and seven others were injured at Abundant Life Christian School, a private Christian school with about 400 students. "The attacker has now been identified as a 15-year-old," Barnes told reporters, identifying the minor by name. "She was a student at the school, and the evidence indicates she died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound," he added.
Burns said a second-grade student called emergency services to report the shooting shortly before 11:00 a.m. local time. Of the six wounded who were hospitalized, two students remain in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, two are in stable condition and two have been discharged from the hospital, the police chief said.
A gun was recovered at the scene, Burns explained, adding that the suspect's family is cooperating with the police investigation.
"We're still working to determine a motive," he said.
One witness interviewed by local media said he heard two gunshots during the attack.
"We heard them and then some people started crying and then we just waited for the police to come and then they escorted us to the church," said the child, who was not identified.
The violence is the latest in a long string of school shootings in the United States, where guns outnumber people and attempts to restrict access to firearms face a perpetual political stalemate.
"We need to come together to do everything we can to support our students to prevent press conferences like these from happening again and again and again," Burns said.
President Joe Biden condemned the shooting as "shocking and unconscionable" and said the tragedy once again underscores the need for stricter gun laws. "It is unacceptable that we are unable to protect our children from this scourge of gun violence. We cannot continue to accept it as normal," he said. "We need Congress to act. Now."
Female school shooters in the U.S. are extremely rare, but female students have been identified as attackers over the years. "Most school shooters are male and in their teens or early 20s. However, over the past 50 years, at least four planned school shootings have involved female assailants," David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database, wrote last year .
The shooting occurred in the last week of classes before students head into the Christmas holidays, said Barbara Viers, the school's director of elementary and school relations. "It obviously shook up our school community," she said at a media briefing.
This year there have been at least 487 mass shootings - involving at least four victims, dead or wounded - in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive. At least 16,012 people have been killed in gun violence in the United States this year, not including suicides, the organization said.
In September, a 14-year-old boy killed four people, including two students, at a high school in the state of Georgia before being arrested. Nineteen students and two teachers were shot dead in May 2022 when an 18-year-old gunman stormed their elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and opened fire. | BGNES