Atlanta sources have reported that an Indian American student is among those injured in a shooting in a Florida school where at least 17 students and teachers were killed as a heavily-armed 19 year old went on a shooting spree outside and inside his former high school. The shooter was arrested an hour later.
Meanwhile among students at the Parkland school is many Indian-Americans and at least one student, a ninth grader, suffered minor injuries after he was hit by splinters. He is being treated at a hospital. Further the horrific violence unfolded on Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, which ironically was voted Florida’s safest city last year.
The
gunman, armed with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, was identified as Nikolas
Cruz, who had been expelled from the school for “disciplinary reasons”. Accordingly
Cruz killed 12 people inside the school and three outside and two more victims
succumbed in hospitals. Moreover the mass murderer was arrested at Coral
Springs, a neighboring city, about an hour after fleeing the scene and had
slipped out of the building by mixing in with crowds of panicky students.
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