The events took place in the small town of Oxford. The investigation will need to determine whether the author of the shots fired at random or whether he was targeting identified victims..
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A 15-year-old opened fire at a high school in Oxford, Michigan, USA, killing three students and injuring eight, including a teacher, Oakland County police said on Tuesday (November 30th). . “The police arrested the suspect within five minutes of the first call” emergency services, she said. The alleged shooter, a teenager himself a student in this establishment, has remained silent since his arrest. “He’s not talking to us at the moment” on the advice of his parents, added the police.
Authorities in Oxford, a city north of Detroit, said the alert was given shortly before 6 p.m. local time. More than a hundred calls to the 911 emergency number were recorded, as the gunman fired between 15 and 20 times with a semi-automatic handgun within a matter of minutes.
The victims are a 16-year-old boy and two girls, 14 and 17 years old. Eight other people, including at least one teacher, were injured and transported to hospitals in the area. Six of them were in stable condition at the end of the day and two more needed surgery, Oakland County police said. The investigation will need to determine whether the author of the shots fired at random or whether he was targeting identified victims. While in Minnesota, US President Joe Biden expressed his condolences “to families who endure the unimaginable pain of having lost a loved one”. “It’s an entire community that must be in shock right now”, he added.