Another school shooting obscures American news. Several people were shot on Monday April 12 in a high school in Knoxville, Tennessee, police said. “Police Department officers were dispatched to Austin-East Magnet High School after a suspected armed man was reported in the facility.”, the police said on Twittter.
“Shots were fired as they approached the suspect”, she detailed, adding that a police officer had been hit but that his life was probably not in danger. The mayor of the city, Indya Kincannon, agreed, assuring the local press that she spoke with the affected police officer who ” is conscious “ and “Stay positive”.
“The establishment was secured and the students who were not affected by the incident were entrusted to their families”School district official Bob Thomas added in a tweet.
A recurring scourge in the United States
One man died on the spot, while another was taken into custody “For further investigation”, add the authorities. They do not specify whether the deceased is one of the suspects.
A site for families to reunite has been opened in a baseball stadium adjacent to the high school, authorities in the city of 180,000 inhabitants in the south of the country report.
Bill Lee, the governor of Tennessee who a few days earlier had strengthened the rights of gun owners in his state, deplored a situation “Tragic and very difficult”.
School shootings have been a recurring scourge in the United States since the Columbine, Colorado, April 1999 massacre.“Epidemic” gun violence, President Joe Biden last week unveiled targeted measures to limit the proliferation of guns in the United States.
