Dead in US school: attack with a gun – police shoot the attacker

Created: 10/24/2022, 10:32 p.m

By: Patrick Mayer

St. Louis: A police vehicle parked in front of Central Visual & Performing Arts High School.

Several people died in the shooting, including the shooter.

© Jeff Roberson/AP/dpa

At least two people are killed in a gun attack at a Missouri school.

The police shoot the alleged attacker.

St. Louis – Another gun attack at a school in the United States kills people.

Specifically: In St. Louis, an attacker killed at least two people and injured several others.

Dead in St. Louis: Suspected perpetrator shot dead in shootout with police

The fatalities are a teenager and an adult, said the police chief of the US city in the state of Missouri, Michael Sack, on Monday (October 24).

According to the information, the attacker was also killed in a shootout with incoming police officers, increasing the death toll to at least three.

The background to the crime and the identity of the shooter were initially unclear.

According to Sacks, the attacker was "about 20 years old".

The police were called to the high school shortly after 9 a.m. (local time, 3 p.m., CEST) on Monday morning because of the shots.

Escaping students spoke of an attacker at Central Visual & Performing Arts High School with a "long gun," Police Commissioner Sacks said.

The officials then heard shots and finally encountered the attacker, he shared with the first findings of the local authorities.

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It's the next horrific act at a US school.

Deadly gun attacks at educational institutions are common in the United States.

For example, in May, an 18-year-old shot dead 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in the small Texas town of Uvalde.

And this Monday, a youth pleaded guilty to killing four classmates at his Michigan school last year.

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Because of the excessive violence with guns, US President Joe Biden has repeatedly called for stricter gun laws in the United States, but Republicans mostly block such political goals.

Most recently, Biden had insisted on a ban on assault rifles owned by private individuals.

Assault rifles were banned in the United States from 1994 to 2004.

Then the ban expired.

For example, Biden has spoken of a “plague of gun violence” in the past.

Now there are once more deaths at a US school to mourn.