As the Attorney General reported, a report was received that there were weapons at the school and law enforcement officers responded.
In the USA, state police Wisconsin on May 1 shot and killed a student who came to a local high school with a gun. The student never made it to school, but the entire area was put on lockdown as a preventive measure.
The Guardian reports this.
“An incident like this is the horror of any father. It was reported that there were weapons in the school, and law enforcement responded. This is an inherently dangerous situation,” Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said at a press conference.
Authorities called the student a minor , but did not provide more details about him or specific details about the type of firearm the guy had. It was also not reported whether the student shot at the police.
The students have since been reunited with their parents. Some waited up to five hours for their children to be dropped off at a bus storage center in a village about 20 miles southwest of the state capital, Madison.
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The high school where the police shooting occurred will be reopened on May 2 and will serve as a center for staff and students to receive support there. Classes are expected to resume May 3, according to Principal Steve Salerno.
“We are ready to roll up our sleeves and work side by side with our amazing law enforcement and first responders. This could have been a much worse tragedy“, – Salerno said at a press conference.
According to a nonprofit organization that tracks such incidents, the K-12 School Shooting Database, shootings in American schools have increased in recent years. Thus, in 2024, at least 115 such incidents occurred. In 82 of them, someone was injured or killed.
By the way, earlier in Sydney a young man attacked the bishop of the Assyrian church with a knife during a service in the temple. The clergyman underwent surgery, and the attacker was taken into custody.
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