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A student has been detained in Moscow after entering a secondary school and taking more than 20 fellow pupils hostage, Russian police say.
The gunman killed one police officer and one biology teacher, police said. Another policeman was shot and injured.
The hostages the gunman took have been released, police said.
The incident, on the outskirts of Moscow, comes as Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympic Games, due to start in Sochi this week.
The gunman is believed to be a pupil at School No. 263 on the northern outskirts of Moscow.
The gunman entered the Moscow secondary school and took more than 20 fellow pupils hostage
“The person who took 20 people and a teacher hostage is a student in the upper classes at the same school,” an interior ministry spokesman said on state TV.
“He has been neutralized and all the students have been freed,” he said.
“One policeman was fatally wounded during the operation and died in hospital, and a teacher at School No. 263 was also killed,” he added.
It is not clear how the teacher and the policeman died.
A school official told Russian television that all children and teachers had been evacuated from the school after the incident.
The gunman opened fire on police officers who arrived at the scene, reports say.
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Authorities have identified 18-year-old Karl Halverson Pierson as the suspect gunman who opened fire at Arapahoe High School in suburban Denver, Colorado.
Karl Halverson Pierson may have had a grudge against a teacher when he opened fire at school.
Quick-thinking students alerted the targeted teacher, who quickly left the building. The scene unfolded on the eve of the Sandy Hook massacre anniversary, a somber reminder of the ever-present potential for violence in the nation’s schools.
The wounded student, a 15-year-old girl, underwent surgery and is in critical condition. Authorities originally said a second student was wounded, but Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said Friday night that the other girl taken to a hospital was covered in blood from the first student and wasn’t injured.
Grayson Robinson did not elaborate on any possible motive except to say Karl Halverson Pierson had a “confrontation or disagreement” with the teacher. He didn’t know if the injured girl was intentionally shot.
Karl Halverson Pierson may have had a grudge against a teacher when he opened fire at Arapahoe High School
Karl Halverson Pierson made no attempt to hide his weapon after entering the school from a parking lot and asking for the teacher by name, Grayson Robinson said.
When the teacher learned that he was being targeted, he left “in an effort to try to encourage the shooter to also leave the school,” the sheriff said.
“That was a very wise tactical decision.”
Jessica Girard said she was in math class when she heard three shots.
“Then there was a bunch of yelling, and then I think one of the people who had been shot was yelling in the hallway, <<Make it stop>>,” she said.
Two suspected Molotov cocktails were also found inside the school, the sheriff said. Grayson Robinson said one was lit and thrown, but no one was injured.
The school was swiftly locked down. Within 20 minutes of the first report of a gunman, officers found Karl Halverson Pierson’s body inside the school, Grayson Robinson said.
Several other Denver-area school districts went into lockdown as reports of the shooting spread. Police as far away as Fort Collins, about a two-hour drive north, stepped up school security.
Arapahoe High students were seen walking toward the school’s running track with their hands in the air, and television footage showed students being patted down. Grayson Robinson said deputies wanted to make sure there were no other conspirators. Authorities later concluded that Karl Halverson Pierson had acted alone.
Nearby neighborhoods were jammed with cars as parents sought out their children. Some parents stood in long lines at a church. One young girl who was barefoot embraced her parents, and the family began to cry.
The shooting came a day before the anniversary of the Newtown, Connecticut, attack in which a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Arapahoe High stands just 8 miles east of Columbine High School in Littleton, where two teenage shooters killed 12 classmates and a teacher before killing themselves in 1999. The practice of sending law enforcement directly into an active shooting, as was done Friday, was a tactic that developed in response to the Columbine shooting.
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A student at Arapahoe High School in Colorado shot and wounded another student before dying of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police have said.
The shooting occurred the day before the anniversary of the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 schoolchildren and six workers were killed at a primary school.
The gunman brought a shotgun to the school and was looking for a specific teacher when confronted by a classmate, the Arapahoe County sheriff said.
The teacher left the school after learning he or she was sought. Another student suffered a minor injury.
The Arapahoe High School shooting occurred the day before the anniversary of the shooting in Newtown
The school and others in the area were placed on lockdown.
Upon the initial reports of a shooting, heavily armed police trained in “active shooter” scenarios stormed the building, ordering students outside with their hands over their heads.
Inside, they found the dead suspected gunman and two other injured students, one of whom had suffered a minor wound, Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said.
Police have not yet released the name of the suspect.
The school has more than 2,200 students and 70 classrooms.
The building is just 8 miles east of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, the site of a mass school shooting in April 1999 which left 14 students dead.
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Connecticut prosecutors said they are about to release the long-awaited report on their investigation over the Sandy Hook mass shooting.
However, the public will have to keep waiting for the full police report on the Newtown elementary school massacre.
The report on the December 14, 2012, shooting, in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza took the lives of 20 first graders, six school staffers and his mother before turning the gun on himself, was supposed to be released in June, then was pushed back to the fall.
The Office of the State’s Attorney for Danbury now says it will publish the summary report Monday afternoon on the state’s Division of Criminal Justice website, www.ct.gov/csao.
Connecticut prosecutors said they are about to release the long-awaited report on their investigation over the Sandy Hook mass shooting
Mark Dupuis, a spokesman for Danbury State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky III, declined to say whether the report has been shared with the families of those who died in the shooting, but he said his office is aware of families’ concerns and has taken steps to address those concerns.
The summary report to be released Monday will not include the full state police report on the shooting, which is expected to run thousands of pages. No date has yet been set for the release of the full police report, and some evidence from the state’s investigation will never be made available to the public.
A state law passed after the massacre exempts certain records of a homicide, including photos and film, from freedom-of-information requests from the press and the public if the records are believed to invade the privacy of survivors.
In advance of the summary report being issued, the interim superintendent of schools in Newtown has reached out to parents and sent a letter to ensure they’re prepared.
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All schools in the Dutch city of Leiden have been closed on Monday amid police concerns over a threat to carry out a mass shooting.
The anonymous threat, made on a website, outlined a plan to target a school and teacher in the city, but did not name either.
Police responded by advising all secondary schools and vocational schools to stay closed for the day.
There are reported to be around 22 such schools in the university city.
Two of the main schools, Da Vinci College and Driestar College, had police officers outside them on Monday morning, Dutch media said.
Leiden Mayor Henri Lenferink told Dutch broadcaster NOS: “It could just be a morbid joke but we don’t want to take any risk.”
All schools in the Dutch city of Leiden have been closed on Monday amid police concerns over a threat to carry out a mass shooting
The threat was posted on internet forum 4chan. In English, the writer states: “Tomorrow, I will shoot my Dutch teacher, and as many students as I can.”
He or she goes on to say that they will be carrying a Colt Defender gun and a note with an explanation for the attack when entering the school.
The decision to close the schools – which cover the 12 to 16 age group – was made in close consultation with the mayor, the public prosecutor and the police.
“Police have received mention about a possible school shooting (being planned) in Leiden,” the authorities said in a statement.
“In light of this serious threat, it has been decided not to take any risk and therefore all middle schools will remain closed on Monday.”
Leiden lies some 13 miles north-east of The Hague, and is home to the Netherlands’ oldest university.
At least 27 people have been killed, including many children, in a shooting attack at a primary school in the US state of Connecticut, US media say.
At least 18 children are among the dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, the Associated Press reported.
Earlier, the gunman was reported to have been killed and at least three people were taken to hospital.
A news conference is imminent and the state Governor Dannell Malloy is on his way.
Police arrived at the school soon after 09:40 local time, answering reports that a gunman was in the school’s main office and one person had “numerous gunshot wounds”.
Scores of officers at the scene carried out a full search of the site.
Schools across the district were immediately on lock-down as a preventive measure, officials said.
Meanwhile, the three people who have been taken to hospital are in “very serious condition”, Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton told CNN.
One witness speaking to CNN said that shots were heard coming from the hall. There “must have been 100 rounds” fired, she told the channel.
Local media have reported that firefighters instructed children to close their eyes and run past the school’s office as they exited the building.
Other sources suggest that some of the shots were fired in a school classroom.
According to CNN, the shooter’s body was in one of the school’s classrooms.
At least 18 children are among the dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown
There were unconfirmed reports of two shooters, according to a report in the local Hartford Courant newspaper.
With the children now evacuated, aerial images of the school show several emergency vehicles still at the scene and scores of cars surrounding the area.
Teams of officers are on the scene, some with dogs, as a thorough search of the school continues.
A local NBC news channel said that a hospital in nearby Danbury had reported receiving three injured patients.
Several parents are reportedly at the school, standing by and waiting for more information. Officials say they are trying to unite children with their parents.
Sandy Hook School – described by correspondents as a highly rated school – has cancelled its kindergarten class on Friday and will not operate midday bus runs, the school’s website says.
The public school has more than 600 students in classes from Kindergarten to 4th Grade – including students aged from five to 10.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that US President Barack Obama had been informed of the incident and was receiving regular updates.
On its website, Danbury Hospital said it was aware of a “situation” at the school.
“Please know we’re collecting facts now and will be back to you as soon as possible with the most accurate information,” the hospital said in a statement.
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One student has been killed and other four injured in a high school shooting in Chardon, Ohio, according to police.
The students were injured when a gunman opened fire in the cafeteria at Chardon High School, the FBI said, which was busy at breakfast time.
Two of the injured were taken by helicopter to Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, and three others went by ambulance to Cleveland Hospital.
Authorities say one gunman was involved, and he has been arrested.
An official said that four boys and one girl were injured in the shooting.
All schools in Chardon will be closed on Tuesday and a vigil has been scheduled for Tuesday evening.
The students were shot by a gunman who opened fire in the cafeteria at Chardon High School, which was busy at breakfast time
Officials at the Cuyahoga County medical examiner’s office identified the victim as 16-year-old Daniel Parmertor, shot in the school’s parking lot waiting for the bus for his daily ride to a vocational school.
“We are shocked by this senseless tragedy,” Daniel Parmertor’s family said in a statement.
“Danny was a bright young boy who had a bright future ahead of him.”
Ambulances arrived from Chardon as well as from three nearby towns within 30 minutes of the shooting, which happened at 07:30 local time.
The two students who were airlifted to hospital were listed in critical condition on Monday afternoon, with one additional student in serious condition and one in stable condition.
Local news reports said the gunman was chased out of the building by a teacher before turning himself in to two people in the vicinity of the school.
“I am happy to tell you that the student that did the shooting is captured,” a sheriff’s official said to reporters at the scene.
“He actually turned himself in to a couple of innocent bystanders just north of the city here in Chardon township.”
Some students said they recognized the shooter, but police said the suspect would not be identified because he was a juvenile.
By early Monday afternoon, police and FBI had surrounded a house in a nearby rural neighborhood.
FBI officials would not comment on a motive.
However, Danny Komertz, 15, who witnessed the shooting, said the gunman was known as an outcast who had apparently been bullied.
One boy who was in the cafeteria when gunfire broke out told US news channel MSNBC: “I thought it was firecrackers at first, I wasn’t sure.
“And then I saw a bunch of people running out. So I started running… I heard someone yell behind me: <<Get down>.. And I heard a bunch of shots fired behind me.”
Students were evacuated to a nearby elementary school, where parents flocked to collect them. Chardon High School has about 1,100 pupils.
Officials from a number of law enforcement authorities rushed to the scene, with a special operations team said to have combed the school for evidence.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has sent a team of eight agents to trace the firearm.
Other schools in the Chardon area were locked down as the investigation began, reports say.
Chardon, a town of about 5,000 residents, is located about 30 miles (48km) east of the city of Cleveland.
US high schools and university campuses are no stranger to gun attacks, and many have well-drilled security and emergency response procedures in place aiming to prevent attacks and manage the response if a gunman does attack.
Monday’s shooting was the worst incidence of gun violence at a US high school in 11 months and the worst shooting in Ohio since late 2007, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence told Reuters news agency.
In the most notorious shooting, two students at Columbine High School in Colorado killed 12 students and a teacher in April 1999.
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