Two Dead After Apparent Murder-Suicide in San Bernardino Elementary School
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Two adults are dead and two students have been critically wounded at a San Bernardino elementary school after what authorities are calling an apparent “murder-suicide.”
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan stated that two adults are dead in a classroom after the shooting and added, “We believe the suspect is down and there’s no further threat.”
Two adults are deceased in a classroom, believed to be a murder suicide. We believe the suspect is down and there’s no further threat.
— Chief Jarrod Burguan (@SBPDChief) April 10, 2017
The school’s website still features an emergency alert for the shooting and, according to the site, the threat “has been neutralized.” Students have already been evacuated by school officials and taken home by parents.
Based on available data, this appears to be the first U.S. school shooting of 2017, though not the first mass shooting of the year, as there have been at least 90, per the Gun Violence Archive.