(Perry) In the United States, police in the small town of Perry, Iowa, announce that there was a shooting Thursday morning, the first day back to school after the holiday break.
A large number of emergency vehicles surrounded the building which houses the local high school and college.
A woman who answered the phone at the Perry Police Department confirmed the shooting, but provided no further information.
Zander Shelley, 15, was in a hallway waiting for the school day to start when he heard gunshots. He rushed into a classroom, according to his father, Kevin Shelley. The teen was brushed twice and hid in the classroom before texting his father at 7:36 a.m.
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Kevin Shelley, who drives a garbage truck, told his boss he had to leave. “I had the biggest fear of my entire life,” he said.
Rachael Kares, an 18-year-old student, was finishing her jazz band rehearsal at 8:37 a.m. – she had just looked at her watch – when she and her bandmates heard what she described as four gunshots. spaced apart.
She and many other students at the school ran past the soccer field when she heard people shouting, “Get out!” Get out! »
FBI agents from the Omaha-Des Moines office were on scene to assist in the investigation by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.
“There are a lot of speculative figures circulating,” said Dirk Cavanaugh, the mayor of Perry. We do not yet have any confirmed figures on who was involved. »
The Perry Community School District has 1,785 students. Perry is about 40 miles (65 kilometers) northwest of Iowa’s capital, Des Moines.