Gunman wounds 2 school kids, then kills self in California
A gunman shot and wounded two children aged 5 and 6 at a California school on Wednesday before shooting himself dead in what investigators said appeared to be an attack directed at the school’s affiliation with the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The two wounded boys were in extremely critical condition and being treated at a trauma center, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea told a press conference.
The shooting occurred shortly after 1 p.m. (2100 GMT) at Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists in a rural community near Oroville, California, about 89 km north of Sacramento.
The gunman had scheduled a meeting with a school administrator to discuss enrolling a student in what was a seemingly cordial encounter, Honea said. But immediately after the meeting the shooter opened fire on students outside a classroom, then turned the handgun on himself.
