At a high school in Iowa in the Midwest of the United States, a 4-year-old male student fired a gun on the 17th, killing a sixth-grade student, and injuring a total of five students including the principal of the school. The student is believed to have shot himself dead.
At a high school in a town outside Des Moines, the capital of Midwestern Iowa, just after 4:7 a.m. on the 10th, and just after 6:5 p.m. Japan time last night, a mass shooting occurred, and according to the police, a sixth-grade student was killed and five students were injured.
Local police said the shooter was a 17-year-old male student at the high school, who was found dead at the school and is believed to have fired at him.
The incident occurred before the start of school on the first day of school after winter break, and the 17-year-old student was armed with a shotgun and a handgun, and a homemade bomb was also found in the school.
In addition, the student posted a photo of himself taken in the school toilet on SNS with background music just before the shooting.
A local newspaper pointed out that this background music was a song used by one of the students who shot in the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado that killed 13 people on his website.
So far, the motive has not been revealed, but the Associated Press is investigating the testimony of other students who said the student was being bullied.