At least three students were killed in a shooting at a high school in Oxford, Michigan on Tuesday. At least eight other people, including a teacher, were injured. The alleged shooter, a 15-year-old student, has been arrested. He was physically unharmed at the time, report American media.
Emergency services received hundreds of reports of a shooting at Oxford High School, about a 50-minute drive from Detroit, around 1pm (local time). The shooter would have fired fifteen to twenty shots with a semi-automatic pistol in about five minutes.
Police believe the boy acted alone. His motive is still unclear. In the near future, detectives will search his social media, among other things, to find out how he came to his act, said agent Mike McCabe on Tuesday at a specially scheduled press conference. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer expressed her condolences shortly after the shooting, saying she expressed her sympathy for “the parents whose children have been taken today and the entire Oxford community.”
It is not the first time that the United States has faced a deadly school shooting, although Tuesday’s attack is the deadliest this year, according to the anti-gun lobby Everytown for Gun Safety. In 2018, a former student shot and killed 17 people at a Parkland high school, Florida. Despite critics arguing for tougher gun laws for years, the powerful US gun lobby is minimizing the likelihood of them coming any time soon.
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