2024-01-05 00:53:14
The killer then committed suicide. The shooting occurred before classes started. Among the injured were 4 students and a school official
First shooting of the year in an American school, with a provisional toll of at least one dead, an 11-year-old child, in addition to the killer and five wounded.
The shooter was a 17-year-old from Perry High School, identified as Dylan Butler, who according to the police acted alone. The reasons that pushed him are not yet known. Police are scouring social media, where the boy was apparently active.
According to rumors, Butler had posted a photo on TikTok shortly before going into action: the shot published showed him in what appears to be the school bathroom and the photo was accompanied by the message `now we wait.
The police found a rudimentary explosive device inside the high school, which was later defused.
The scene of the tragedy was a high school in Perry, a small town of 8,000 inhabitants 60 km from Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, the small rural state where the Republican primaries begin on January 15th and where guns circulate quite freely.
The perpetrator of the attack went into action at 7.37 local time, about 20 minutes before lessons began on the first day of school after the Christmas holidays. Fortunately at that time there were few students and teachers in the building, otherwise it could have ended worse, underlined the local sheriff Adam Infante, who in the first press conference of the day limited himself to saying that several people had been hit without indicating the number and conditions, waiting to contact the family. The killer’s suicide was revealed by the media. The dynamics of the shooting are still unknown.
Witnesses said they heard several distant shots and began running towards the football field or barricaded themselves in the classrooms. The police arrived within seven minutes, with a large deployment of vehicles and men. A helicopter was also mobilized to transport the wounded.
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January 4, 2024 (modified January 4, 2024 | 11:34 pm)
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