"You always see it on the news and don't think it'll happen to you."Ĭlose to the time of the shooting the NRA's official Twitter tweeted out that there had been a 10 percent spike in gun sales "as Democrats pushed to confiscation," declaring Democrats the "Gun Salespeople of the year". "You hear about it all the time, and it's finally at home," parent Tony Barrett told The Los Angeles Times. Three of the students shot were female, and two male. Surveillance video taken from the scene shows the suspect withdrawing the weapon from his backpack, shooting the five victims, then turning the gun on himself. 45 caliber semi-automatic pistol which police report had no more rounds in it. The student shot five people before turning the gun on himself, and is under police custody in grave condition as he receives treatment at a local hospital. Students reunite with their parents in Santa Clarita's Central Park after a shooting at Saugus High School on the morning of Thursday, Nov. Two died and four were wounded in the shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, which was allegedly carried out by a 16-year-old male student on his birthday. Washington High School Teacher Arrested for Threatening to Shoot Students.Senator Learns of Santa Clarita School Shooting During Gun Violence Speech.Live Updates: Two Dead in Shooting at Santa Clarita High School.Bill Clinton to Trump on Impeachment Behavior: 'You Got Hired To Do a Job'.#MassacreMitch Trends After Santa Clarita School Shooting At least two students were killed and several others were hospitalized with gunshot wounds following a shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita on Thursday, officials said.
They were transported from the campus on school buses with armed deputies on board. Hart Union High School District, officials said.Īerial video showed students, with their hands raised, being escorted by deputies away from the school of about 2,300 students, NBC Los Angeles reported. Saugus was placed on lockdown, as were neighboring elementary schools and all of the schools in Saugus' William S. I didn't know what was going on," she said.
"When I got out, I saw this person lying down on the ground, and I saw blood all over. Minutes later, the office said people were reporting that shots had been fired at the school.ĭownload the NBC News app for breaking newsĪ student, Sharon Orelana Cordova, told NBC Los Angeles that she was doing homework when she saw people running, so she started running, too. that the public should avoid the area of Saugus High School, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles. Santa Clarita shooting: Weapon used in Saugus High attack a ‘ghost gun,’ sheriff says Kim Segal and her children pay their respects Monday at a memorial at Saugus High School, where two. The Santa Clarita Valley station tweeted just before 8 a.m. "Parents, deputies are on scene everywhere protecting your children," the sheriff's station said. The latest deadly school shooting to hit the US started early on Thursday morning at Saugus high school in Santa Clarita, 30 miles north of Los Angeles.
"If you see suspect, male dark clothing, in backyards, etc. The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station found a student allegedly in possession of a firearm. "If you live in neighborhoods anywhere near Saugus High, PLEASE LOCK DOORS and stay inside," the sheriff's Santa Clarita Valley station tweeted before the suspect was identified. Authorities searched for the suspect after the shooting, not immediately realizing that he was one of the six people wounded.