2024-01-04 21:14:00
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Several people were injured by gunshots this Thursday in a shooting at a high school in the US city of Iowarecorded in the morning, shortly before the start of classes.
“Fortunately There were very few students and teachers in the building“Dallas County Police Chief Adam Infante stated at a press conference, saying that at the moment it is not clear how many people were injured or what their situation is.
According to Infante, The attacker was identified, although his identity was not revealed. Local media reported that, according to police sources, the shooter was a high school student and he died.
“There is no more danger to the public. The community is safe,” said Infante, reported by NBC. “Now we are working to try to find out everything that happened,” she said.
The shooting took place on the first day of classes of the new semesterafter more than 80 attacks of this type were recorded last year in educational institutions throughout the country, the highest number since 2008, according to CNN.
President Joe Biden is following what happened in Iowa, White House sources told CNN, who pointed out that the president is in contact with Governor Kim Reynolds’ office.
Reynolds said he was monitoring the situation and reported that he would hold a press conference in the afternoon.
“Our hearts are broken by this senseless tragedy. Our prayers are with the students, teachers and families of the Perry Community,” he wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
The town of Perry is located about 60 kilometers from the city of Des Moines, capital of Iowa, and has about 8,000 inhabitants, according to data from the Census Bureau.
The United States has more guns than people: one adult in three owns at least one gun and almost one adult in two lives in a home where there is a gun.
The consequence of this proliferation is the very high rate of deaths from firearmsincomparable with that of other developed countries.
Excluding suicides, Almost 19,000 people died due to armed violence in 2023 in the countryaccording to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) association, which noted that last year there was a decrease of around 8% in deaths compared to the previous year.
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