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A 14-year-old boy was
treated and released from
another hospital, authori-
ties said.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva said
the shooter was a student
at the school but did not
identify him.
The sheriff said a biography
on an Instagram account
believed to belong to the
teen contained the post-
ing: “Saugus, have fun at
school tomorrow.”
The message was discov-
ered Thursday morning
after the shooting. It was
unclear when it was made
and by whom, the sheriff
said.
It was later removed, and
investigators do not know
who made the change,
Wegener said.
Investigators were search-
ing the suspect’s home.
Wegener said the sheriff's
department had not re-
ceived any recent calls to
the boy's house "that would
indicate that there was tur-
moil" there.
"At this point in time, we Students are escorted out of Saugus High School after reports of a shooting on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, in Santa Clarita, Calif.
have no indication of mo- Associated Press
tivation or ideology,” said
Paul Delacourt, the agent (48 kilometers) northwest of practiced security proce- later as she left a nearby shootings that she always
in charge of the FBI’s Los downtown LA.The sound dures. Kyra Stapp, 17, was park with her father. “This is assumed she’d panic. But
Angeles field office. Santa of gunfire sent some stu- watching a documentary it. I’m gonna die.” she stayed calm with the
Clarita is a city of more dents running while others in class when she heard Freshman Rosie Rodriguez help of her teacher, who
than 200,000 about 30 miles and staff followed recently two gunshots. Panicked said she was walking up locked down the class-
students ran in and report- the library stairs when she room. Saugus High’s secu-
ed the shooting. heard noises that “sound- rity is provided by one un-
Stapp’s class and others ed like balloons” popping. armed sheriff’s deputy and
were herded into a teach- She realized they were nine “campus supervisors”
er break room where they gunshots when she saw who act as guards, said to
locked the door and turned other students running. Collyn Nielson, chief ad-
off the lights. Still carrying a backpack ministrative officer for the
Kyra texted her mother and laden with books, she William S. Hart Union High
tried not make any noise. ran across the street to a School District.
They exchanged messag- home, where a person she The campus is surround-
es as sirens screamed and didn’t know gave shelter ed by a fence, and stu-
helicopters and deputies to her and about 10 other dents enter through a lim-
carrying rifles and shotguns students. “I just heard a ited number of gates each
swarmed the campus. Then lot of kids crying. We were morning. There are a dozen
Kyra fell silent while officers scared,” Rodriguez said. security cameras but no
escorted students out. A huge crowd of anxious metal detectors.
“She’s been texting me and parents gathered in the All district schools hold lock-
all of a sudden she’s not,” park, waiting to be reunit- down drills three times a
Tracy Stapp said. “That was ed with their children. year, including two in the
like the worst 10 minutes of Undersheriff Tim Murakami fall that have already oc-
my life, I swear.” tweeted an apology to the curred, Nielson said.
Shauna Orandi, 16, said she parents, saying investiga- “In speaking with staff and
was in her Spanish class do- tors needed to interview hearing reports, students re-
ing homework when she the students before they ported they knew what to
heard four gunshots that could be released. do and immediately went
she initially mistook as instru- Orandi said she has heard into lockdown mode,” he
ments from a band class. about so many school said.q
She said a student burst
into the room saying he’d
seen the gunman, and her
classmates were stunned
into silence.
“My worst nightmare actu-
ally came true,” she said