One dead and two injured in shooting outside high school
A teenager died Monday and two others are seriously injured after being hit by gunfire outside a US high school and “potential suspects” have been arrested.
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A shooting took place at 2:48 p.m. local time (9:48 p.m. in Switzerland) in front of East High School in Des Moines, Iowa (center), according to a statement sent to AFP by Sergeant Paul Parizek, local police spokesperson.
Three teenagers wounded by the shootings were discovered on the spot by the police and were hospitalized. One of the victims died of his injuries, the other two continue to receive treatment, police said.
“The shots appear to have been fired from a passing vehicle,” the statement added. Police said they had arrested “potential suspects” without having filed charges so far.
The high school, a time confined after the shooting, reopened its doors and the students were able to leave the perimeter, indicated on Twitter the department of public schools of the city.
Scourge
Shootings with many victims remain a recurring scourge in the United States, in schools, supermarkets or in the workplace in particular.
In early February, a student was shot dead and another injured outside a school in Minnesota. And on November 30, a 15-year-old high school student randomly targeted his schoolmates, killing four and injuring six.
In 2018, a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, when a former student fired an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, killing 17 people and injuring 15 others on Valentine’s Day, had sent shockwaves through the country and revived protests demanding tighter controls on firearms sales.
But blockages in Congress, under the influence of the arms lobby, make any major progress on the subject unlikely despite calls from politicians, President Joe Biden included, to toughen the rules on their movement.
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