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Tuesday 25 OcTOber 2022
2 killed in shooting at St. Louis high school; gunman dead

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and JIM ing that killed four students
SALTER in December 2021.Some of
Associated Press the six people hospitalized
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A gunman suffered gunshot wounds,
broke into a St. Louis high while others were struck by
school Monday morning, shrapnel, Sack said. He did
fatally shooting a woman not provide any informa-
and a teenage girl and tion on their conditions.
wounding six others before One student, 16-year-old
police killed him in an ex- Taniya Gholston, told the
change of gunfire. St. Louis Post-Dispatch she
The shooting just after 9 was in a room when the
a.m. at Central Visual and shooter entered.
Performing Arts High School “All I heard was two shots
forced students to barri- and he came in there with
cade doors and huddle in a gun,” Gholston said.
classroom corners, jump “And I was trying to run
from windows and run out and I couldn’t run. Me and
of the building to seek safe- him made eye contact but
ty. One terrorized girl said I made it out because his
she was eye-to-eye with gun got jammed. But we
the shooter before his gun saw blood on the floor.”
apparently jammed and Ninth-grader Nylah Jones
she was able to run out. told the Post-Dispatch she
Others inside the school was in math class when
said they heard the shooter Students stand in a parking lot near the Central Visual & Performing Arts High School after a the shooter fired into the
declare: “You are all go- reported shooting at the school in St. Louis on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Associated Press room from the hallway.
ing to die.” The city’s po- The shooter was unable
lice chief said fast actions in the school at the time, armed with what he de- Monday’s school shooting to get into the room and
by a security guard and each at an entry point of scribed as a long gun. Cen- was the 40th this year result- banged on the door as stu-
police officers who “ran to the locked building. One tral Visual and Performing ing in injuries or death, ac- dents piled into a corner,
the gunfire” helped end of the guards noticed the Arts shares a building with cording to a tally by Educa- she said. Janay Douglas’
the shooting before more man trying to get in at a another magnet school, tion Week the most in any 15-year-old daughter got
people were killed or hurt. locked door, but couldn’t. Collegiate School of Medi- single year since it began stuck in a hallway when the
Speaking at a news confer- The guard notified school cine and Bioscience, which tracking shootings in 2018. school was locked down.
ence, Police Chief Michael officials and ensured police also was evacuated. Cen- These include the killings at Douglas said she received
Sack said the shooter was were contacted, Sack said. tral has 383 students, Colle- Robb Elementary School a call from her daughter
about 20 years old but did “It was that timely response giate 336. Officers worked in Uvalde, Texas, in May, letting her know she had
not provide a name for him by that security officer, to get students out of the when 19 children and two heard shots. “One of her
or his victims. He declined the fact that the door did three-story brick building, teachers died. Monday’s friends busted through the
to say if the woman killed cause pause for the sus- then “ran to that gunfire, St. Louis shooting came on door, he was shot in the
was a teacher. pect, that bought us some located that shooter and the same day a Michigan hand, and then her and her
St. Louis Schools Superin- time,” Sack said. engaged that shooter in teenager pleaded guilty to friends just took off running.
tendent Kelvin Adams said He declined to say how the an exchange of gunfire,” terrorism and first-degree The phone disconnected,”
seven security guards were man eventually got inside, killing him, Sack said. murder in a school shoot- Douglas said. q

Fires in Nebraska, Iowa spur evacuations, destroy homes

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Prai- ern Nebraska and western At least two grassland fires Sunday evening, with the home’s back porch with
rie fires pushed by tinder- Iowa and destroyed homes were first reported Sunday help of rain showers that water and set up sprinklers
dry conditions and winds and injured two firefighters afternoon south of Lin- moved into the area. Offi- in case the fire got close.
topping 60 mph (96 kph) south of Nebraska’s capital coln and spread quickly cials said three homes and Fires near Wisner in north-
led to evacuations in east- city of Lincoln, officials said. as winds began to pick up several outbuildings were eastern Nebraska and
and push the fires north, the destroyed in Lancaster Harrison and Montgomery
Lancaster County Sheriff’s County. counties in western Iowa
Office reported. Two firefighters also were also forced brief evacu-
The nearly 300 residents of injured, one seriously. Offi- ations, but there were no
Hallam, about 20 miles (32 cials had not released their reports of injuries or homes
kilometers) south of Lincoln, names or updated their damaged there.
were ordered to evacuate medical conditions by ear- Emergency management
their homes, and rural resi- ly Monday morning. officials in eastern Nebras-
dents of southern Lancast- In southwestern Lancaster ka and western Iowa said
er County and northern County, residents made Monday that officials have
Gage County were urged plans to move cattle and not pinpointed the causes
to evacuate because of other valuables to Christo- of the fires.
the fires. pher Smith’s farm south of Rain moving across the re-
Officials also asked farm- the fires. gion Monday with a cold

Smoke rises from a grass fire just east of Olive Creek State ers to turn on irrigation piv- “Everybody’s just trying to front from the north was
Recreation Area in southwestern Lancaster County, Sunday, ots or other water sources help out,” Smith said. Mean- expected to help lower the
Oct. 23, 2022, near Hallam, Neb. to help combat the fires, while, one farm’s owner risk of fires in the area.q
Associated Press which were contained by worked to spray down the