A teenager has been killed and seven others injured after two pupils allegedly opened fire in a US school.<\/p>\n
The attack at the STEM School Highlands Ranch, near Denver, Colorado, took place on Tuesday, police said. Both attackers have now been arrested.<\/p>\n
Highlands Ranch is just 8km (5 miles) from Columbine High School – the site of one of the US’s worst school shootings 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
This is believed to be the 115th mass shooting in the US in 2019.<\/p>\n
Just before 14:00 local time (20:00 GMT) the attackers “walked into the STEM school, got deep inside the school and engaged students in two separate locations”, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said.<\/p>\n
One suspect was a male youth, while the other was an adult man. Both were pupils at the school.<\/p>\n
Mr Spurlock said the school contacted the emergency services “almost immediately”, and that officers arrived at the scene about two minutes later.<\/p>\n
The school was closed and placed on lockdown as police attended the scene. It was eventually lifted an hour later, at about 15:00 local time (21:00 GMT).<\/p>\n
One 18-year-old male pupil was fatally shot. A handgun was later recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n
“We have no information about anyone being targeted,” Mr Spurlock said, adding that it was too early to come to any conclusions.<\/p>\n
One parent, named in local media as Fernando Montoya, said his 17-year-old son was shot three times and wounded.<\/p>\n
“He said a guy pulled a pistol out of a guitar case and started to shoot,” Mr Montoya told ABC affiliate Denver 7.<\/p>\n
Colorado Governor Jared Polis tweeted he would send extra police officers to the scene.<\/p>\n
The White House also tweeted its condolences to the victims, while spokesman Judd Deere said President Donald Trump “has been briefed and continues to monitor the ongoing situation”.<\/p>\n
And another parent Steve Holley\u00a0tweeted that he had been here before<\/a>.<\/p>\n “This is the third time I’ve had to pick up my boys from school due to a lockdown,” he wrote.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"