(Los Angeles) A sixth-grade student opened fire Thursday morning at her Idaho school, slightly injuring three people before being disarmed by a teacher, local authorities said.
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The shooter, educated at this school in the small town of Rigby, was quickly arrested by the police, who did not disclose her identity or age. Sixth graders are typically 11 or 12 years old.
“This morning at around 9:08 am, a sixth grade student took a handgun from her backpack. She fired several bullets inside the facility and injured three people. Two of them are students and one is a school employee, ”Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson told a press conference.
PHOTO JOHN ROARK, THE IDAHO POST-REGISTER VIA AP
Steve Anderson
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He stressed that the injuries were slight and that the lives of the three victims, taken to hospital, were not at stake.
“During the shooting, a teacher disarmed the student and held her until the police arrested her,” Sheriff Anderson added, without being able to explain the child’s motives.
The shooting started in the entrance hall of the school and continued outside, he said.
PHOTO JOHN ROARK, THE IDAHO POST-REGISTER VIA AP
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A recurring scourge in the United States, shootings regularly revive the debate on the proliferation of firearms in the country, without much concrete progress.
Many Americans remain very attached to their guns and have even rushed to buy more since the start of the pandemic, and even more during the major anti-racist protests of spring 2020 and the electoral tensions of the fall.
Last year, more than 43,000 people in the United States were killed by guns, including suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.
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