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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 11 april 2017

Likely murder-suicide at school kills 2 adults, 1 student

CHRISTOPHER WEBER corted by police officers, Four hours later, the chil- alongside, waving and try- she was told that a family
Associated Press walking off campus hand- dren began to arrive at the ing to recognize their chil- friend saw the girl getting
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. in-hand. high school, getting hugs dren inside. Many said their safely onto a bus.
(AP) — A teacher and a As word of the shooting from emotional parents. children were too young “I was really elated. But I
student were shot to death won’t be truly happy until I
and a second student criti- see her and can give her a
cally wounded Monday in big hug,” Terrell said as she
a murder-suicide at a San sat in the bleachers near
Bernardino elementary Cajon High School’s base-
school that spread panic ball diamond.
across a city still recovering “It’s frustrating for us as par-
emotionally from a terror- ents but also understand-
ist attack at a community able,” Holly Penalber said
center just 15 months ago. of the long wait, which
The suspected shooter who most parents seemed re-
opened fired in a class- signed to.
room at North Park School Penalber’s 9-year-old son
also died. A school official and 7-year-old daugh-
said the attack was be- ter attend the school. She
lieved to stem from a “do- called Monday’s shoot-
mestic dispute” and that ings “every parent’s worst
the teacher knew the gun- nightmare.” San Bernardi-
man. no, a city of 216,000 peo-
Two wounded students ple about 60 miles east of
were flown to a hospital Los Angeles, was the site of
where an 8-year-old later a December 2015 terror at-
died. The other student tack that killed 14 people
was listed in critical condi- Sydney Doty, center, a 6-year-old transitional kindergarten student at North Park Elementary and wounded 22 others at
tion. School, walks with her parents and sister after they were reunited at Cajon High School after a a meeting of San Bernardi-
“The children we do not deadly shooting at the elementary school on Monday, April 10, 2017, in San Bernardino, Calif. no County employees.
believe were targeted,” (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Husband-and-wife shoot-
police Capt. Ron Maass spread, panicked parents As the students got off the to have cellphones. Others ers Syed Rizwan Farook
told reporters. raced to the school, some buses, many of them car- said the phones rang un- and Tashfeen Malik were
The 600 other students at in tears, some praying as rying glow sticks they had answered. later killed in a gunbattle
the school were bused to they anxiously sought in- been given to pass the Among those waiting anx- with authorities.
safety at California State formation about their chil- time with, police officers iously at the high school Monday’s shooting was
University’s San Bernardi- dren. They were told to go applauded and high-fived for her 9-year-old grand- the latest tragedy for a city
no campus, several miles to a nearby high school them. daughter’s return was that has struggled in re-
away. Television news foot- where they would be re- When the buses first pulled Alberta Terrell, who said cent years with more than
age showed students, es- united. away, some parents ran she cried with relief when its share of them. q