Santa Clarita high school shooting: suspect dies as motive remains unclear

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Santa Clarita high school shooting: suspect dies as motive remains unclear

• LA county sheriff says two were killed in attack
• Shooting at Saugus high school injured three others

Sam Levin in Santa Clarita and Mario Koran in San Francisco
Sat 16 Nov 2019 01.40 GMT
First published on Thu 14 Nov 2019 16.15 GMT

Investigators in southern California are working to figure out why a suspect opened fire outside his high school on his 16th birthday, killing two fellow students and wounding more before turning the gun on himself.

The latest deadly school shooting to hit the US started early on Thursday morning at Saugus high school in Santa Clarita, 30 miles north of Los Angeles.

The student pulled out a .45-caliber handgun around 7.30am in a large central outdoor area at the school, shooting five classmates and then himself, authorities said. A 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy succumbed to their injuries. They were identified as Gracie Anne Muehlberger and Dominic Blackwell.

The suspect was admitted to the Henry Mayo Newhall hospital in critical condition, and died on Friday afternoon.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/14/santa-clarita-california-saugus-high-school-police-shooting

[Scotch-Irish]

1. So friggin' tragic.

Senseless. What are these killer kids going through that makes them this way?

[BigmanPigman]

2. If he was suicidal

why didn't he just kill himself? Why involve others?

[whathehell]

3. He was homicidal, likely very angry at the others

then he became suicidal.