reports the Louisville Courier-Journal<\/a>, police have named the two students who died as Bailey Holt, pronounced dead at the school, and Preston Cope, who died in hospital.<\/p>\n“To walk in, the backpacks laying around, the phones laying around, going off, it’s indescribable,” Marshall County Attorney Jeffery Edwards told the newspaper.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been doing this for 25 years. It’s not like anything I’ve experienced in my life.”<\/p>\n
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Jason Hall, a student at the school of nearly 1,150, described the chaos as everyone stampeded for the exits.<\/p>\n
“I saw people getting shoved down,” he said. “There was a lot of blood everywhere. It was horrible.”<\/p>\n
The attack shocked the small farming town of 4,500 people, situated about 130 miles (210km) north-west of Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n
Governor Matt Bevin called the attack a “tremendous tragedy” in a statement posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n
“It is unbelievable that this would happen in a small, close-knit community like Marshall County,” he said.<\/p>\n
“As there is still much unknown, I encourage people to love on each other at this time.<\/p>\n
“Do not speculate, but come alongside each other in support and allow the facts to come out.”<\/p>\n
In Washington, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to send “prayers of comfort” to the community.<\/p>\n
Several nearby churches and schools were holding vigils for the victims.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s classes at the school have been cancelled.<\/p>\n
It is at least the second gun attack in an American high school in as many days.<\/p>\n
A 15-year-old girl was shot by a 16-year-old classmate in the cafeteria on Monday in the small Texas town of Italy.<\/p>\n
The girl is recovering in hospital; her attacker fled but was later arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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