China News Agency, New York, October 24th. A school shooting occurred in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on the 24th, killing 3 people, including the gunman, and injuring 7 others.

　　The shooting happened just after 9 a.m. at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, local police said.

After the incident, the school and another high school in the same building took emergency closure measures.

When the police arrived, they found several people injured, and then confronted the gunman in the school and shot him dead.

　　St. Louis Police Chief Michael Sack said two of the nine injured at Central High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, including an adult woman and a teenage girl, died after being hospitalized.

Referring to the gunman, Sack revealed that the suspect, who appeared to be about 20 years old, was pronounced dead in the hospital and his motive was still under investigation.

　　NBC reported that the adult woman killed in the shooting was Jean Kuzka, a 61-year-old health teacher at Midlands High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, whose daughter was told she was in the middle of protecting students. bomb.

The identity of the other victim has not been released by police.

　　According to the "St. Louis Post-Post" report, the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School has about 400 students, and another high school in the same building has about 300 students. The doors of both schools were locked before the incident. Security guards are on duty, and it is unclear how the gunman entered the building with his long gun.

It is reported that the principal of the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School immediately followed the drill process and read out the code phrase to the whole school through a loudspeaker after learning about the case, implying that there was a gunman in the school.

Soon after, gunshots rang out in the school.

　　At a news conference that day, St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones expressed condolences to the victims and families of the shooting.

Jones said such a "devastating and traumatic situation" was heartbreaking and that schools should be safe places where parents must not worry about the well-being of their children after they have been delivered.

　　White House press secretary Jean-Pierre condemned the shooting at a press conference on the same day, calling it "senseless violence" and reiterated that US President Biden has called on Congress to pass a ban on assault weapons as soon as possible and measures aimed at limiting access to firearms.

"We need to do more to stop the scourge of gun violence." (End)