Los Angeles
Police cordon off the Belmont High School in Los Angeles
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018.
Associated
Press/Damian Dovarganes
A 12-year-old girl is in police custody after a
shooting at a Los Angeles middle school.
There are two 15-year-old gunshot victims, a boy and a
girl, and three others with minor injuries from glass, the Los
Angeles Fire Department said.
Two 15-year-olds were shot and a 12-year-old girl was taken into
custody following an incident at a Los Angeles middle school on
Thursday, police said.
The gunshot victims include a boy who was shot in the head and is
now in critical but stable condition, and a girl in fair
condition who was shot in the wrist, Los Angeles Fire Department
officials said at a press conference.
Three other victims between the ages of 11 and 30 received minor
abrasions from the shooting, mostly due to glass, the officials
added.
Los Angeles School Police Chief Steve Zipperman told reporters
that the 12-year-old girl was a "person of interest" in the
investigation. The shooting occurred in a mixed-grade classroom
at Los Angeles' Sal Castro Middle School.
Shortly after the shooting, a girl could be seen being led away
in handcuffs by police in video footage taken by local outlet
KTLA, but it was unclear whether she was the suspect in question.
The reported location of the shooting was a middle school
classroom at the campus shared by Belmont High School and Sal
Castro Middle school. The building remains on lockdown, but has
been declared safe, Zipperman said.
"We will attend to the needs of these students who witnessed this
very carefully, with the understanding that this is very
traumatic," Zipperman told media.
People
wait for news outside the Belmont High School complex in Los
Angeles Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018.
Associated Press/Damian Dovarganes
Zipperman said it's unclear how the suspect allegedly obtained
the gun that was recovered from the scene, but added that the
"proper prosecutorial procedures will occur" if authorities
discover that it came from an adult in her home.
Mike Feuer, the city attorney of Los Angeles, told reporters that
Thursday's shooting was a "very important call to action to every
adult in our community who has a gun."
"You must store it safely and keep it out of access for any child
to reach. It could result in a tragedy," Feuer said. "It could
result in a suicide or a homicide or another situation which
could easily have been prevented by responsibly, safely storing
weapons."
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