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Bloody School Shooting Claims Three Lives

Two students previously reported as injured have died. The suspected shooter is also listed as a fatality. The chaos unfolded Monday Morning, October 24, at the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, Missouri.

Students confirmed deceased

According to NBC News, “three people are dead, including the gunman.” Multiple victims were transported to the hospital and it’s not yet clear how many were students.

As noted by police, they were alerted shortly after 9 a.m. that there was “a shooter with a long gun” inside the Performing Arts High School. As a precaution, the Collegiate School of Medicine & Bioscience in the same building was also placed on lockdown.

The suspect is described as appearing to be “about 20 years old.” Initial reports indicated police had him in custody without mentioning any wounds.

Those reports also listed the fatalities as two injured students. Details are being confirmed as more information comes in. This remains a developing story.

Latest reports indicate that it was a tweet from St. Louis Public Schools which announced he was in custody. St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department reported, soon after, that he had been pronounced dead “after exchanging gunfire with police.” As of the latest information, “on paper we might have nine victims, eight who were transported and one remained.

It’s not clear how many were students or faculty. Chief Mike Sack made a point to mention that statistic also does not reflect “hundreds of others” who were victims too. “Everyone who survived here is going to take home trauma.”

Names not released

None of the names of the students or gunman involved have been released. All that’s been revealed is that “one of the victims is a woman and the other is a teenage girl. Both were killed as a result of gunshot wounds.

NBC notes that “multiple victims remain in hospitals with injuries ranging from gunshot wounds to being struck by shrapnel. Police did not release any information about their conditions.

Police are staying tight lipped about any possible motivation or connection between the shooter and the school or its students.

Adrienne Bolden, a freshman at the school relates that “him and his classmates had to jump out of a window to escape the gunman.” The only thing going through his mind, he says was “that I need to stay alive.

At first, Bolden and his fellow students “thought the shooting was an intruder drill.” that, he declares, “changed when he started hearing sirens outside.” His teacher “crawled over and she was asking for help to move the lockers to the door so they can’t get in.

After helping her barricade the classroom, and the assistant principal unlocked the windows, they all bailed out. Nobody is sure how the gunman got in because all the doors were locked.

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