3 killed, 8 wounded in Michigan high school shooting
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A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school on Tuesday, killing three students and wounding eight other people, including a teacher, authorities said.
Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe said at a news conference that two of the wounded were undergoing surgery as of 5 p.m. ET and the six others were in stable condition.
He identified the three students who were killed as a 16-year-old boy and two girls, ages 14 and 17. Authorities say they received a flood of 911 calls shortly before 1 p.m. about an attack at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, a community of about 22,000 people roughly 48 kilometres north of Detroit.
Police arrested the suspect at the school and recovered a semi-automatic handgun and several clips.
"Deputies confronted him. He had the weapon on him. They took him into custody," McCabe said.
The suspect wasn't hurt when he was taken into custody, and he had refused to say how he got the gun into the school, McCabe said.
The undersheriff said investigators would be looking through social media posts for any evidence of a possible motive. Authorities didn't immediately release the names of the suspect or victims.
Tim Throne, the superintendent of Oxford Community Schools, said he didn't yet know the victims' names or whether their families had been contacted.
"I'm shocked. It's devastating," Throne told reporters.
The school was placed on lockdown after the attack, with some children sheltering in locked classrooms while officers searched the premises. Students were later taken to a nearby Meijer grocery store to be picked up by their parents.
Isabel Flores told WJBK-TV that she and other students heard gunshots and saw another student bleeding from the face.
They then ran from the area through the rear of the school, said Flores, a 15-year-old ninth grader.
Robin Redding said her son, Treshan Bryant, is a 12th grader at the school but stayed home on Tuesday. She said he had heard threats of a shooting at the school.
"This couldn't be just random," she said.
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