United States: shooting and death in a high school in Tennessee

Several victims were recorded on Monday in a high school shooting from the city of Knoxville, in the state of Tennessee (USA), local police reported on social media.

The security forces are on the scene, the school Austin-East Magnet, and the investigation is still open.

Knoxville Police, who he has not yet specified whether the victims are injured or whether there are deaths, asks in its messages in the networks that the zone of the shootings is avoided.

The fact has at a time when the arms debate in the country, where the president Joe biden announced limited-scope measures to tackle violence and demanded that Congress stop tolerating an issue it described as a “international shame“.

Two weeks after the mass shootings that started 18 dead in Georgia and ColoradoBiden on Thursday unveiled several initiatives to contain gun violence, but admitted that he would not be able to do much on his own if Congress continues to block any attempts to increase control of guns and guns. guns.