Sixth grade student shot at school and injured three people in the United States

A girl opened fire on Thursday at a school in northwestern Idaho., injuring three people before being disarmed by a teacher, police said.

The student at Rigby High School near Idaho Falls – whose name has not been released – is in sixth grade, so she would be 11 or 12 years old..

The young girl “took a pistol out of her backpack, shot several times in and out of the school”, Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said.

The sheriff said the injuries sustained by two students and a school staff member were not life threatening.

“During the shooting, a teacher disarmed the student and detained her until the police took her into custody,” Anderson added at a press conference.

The student was detained, while the incident is being investigated by the FBI and locally.

The injured students were transferred to a hospital, where they spent the night, while the adult has already been released from the hospital. The rest of the students were evacuated from the school after the event.

Authorities have not yet given any reason why the student carried out the shooting, although County Prosecutor Mark Taylor has indicated that once the investigation is completed, “he will bring the appropriate charges, possibly including three counts of attempted murder.”

The school district has decided to close all schools for this Friday due to the shooting.

The United States has suffered a series of mass shootings in recent weeks: one at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, another in an office building in California, in addition to an attack on a Colorado grocery store, and another in several spas in Atlanta. .

Last month the president Joe Biden called gun violence in the United States an “epidemic” and “international disgrace”.

Last year there were more than 43,000 gun-related deaths in the country, including suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

(With information from AFP and Europa Press)

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