A day of ‘horror’ at Santa Clarita high school: 2 dead after student shoots 5, then himself
Two people were killed and four injured – including the gunman – in a 16-second shooting rampage Thursday at a high school, authorities said.
The suspect, a student at Saugus High School, was taken into custody and was treated at a hospital, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said. He described the suspect as a male student whose 16th birthday was Thursday. The student was in “grave” condition, Villanueva said.
The gunman shot five students in the school’s quad area with a .45-caliber semiautomatic weapon, then shot himself in the head, said sheriff’s Capt. Kent Wegener. He said there were no more bullets in the weapon when the suspect stopped shooting.
A female student, 16, and a male student, 14, died at a hospital, officials said. A 14-year-old boy and two girls – 14 and 15 – were injured, in addition to the gunman.
“We have not yet established a motive or a nexus between the subject and his victims, other than to say they were all students at the high school together,” Wegener said.
