HORROR OF SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
Female US school shooters are exceedingly rare, but women and schoolgirls have been identified as assailants over the years.
“Most school shooters are male and in their teens or early 20s. However, over the last 50 years, at least four planned school shootings have involved female attackers,” David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database, wrote last year.
The shooting happened in the final week of classes before students head to Christmas holidays, said Barbara Wiers, the school’s director of elementary and school relations.
“This has obviously rocked our school community,” she told a media briefing, saying it was not yet decided if students would return before the year-end break.
This year, there have been at least 487 mass shootings – defined as a shooting involving at least four victims, dead or wounded – Bacross the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
At least 16,012 people have been killed in firearms violence in the United States this year, not including suicides, GVA reported Monday.
In September a 14-year-old boy killed four people, including two students, at a high school in the state of Georgia, before being taken into custody.
Nineteen students and two teachers were shot dead in May 2022 when an 18-year-old gunman stormed their Uvalde, Texas elementary school and opened fire.
