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New details have emerged regarding the Thursday morning school shooting at the Perry High School in Iowa. While little was known at the time of the initial reporting, it is now known that multiple people were shot and the suspect has been identified, the Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante said at a press conference.
Details on the suspect are not being released at this time, possibly due to his age or for other legal reasons. Sheriff Infante stated that law enforcement received reports of a shooting at the school before school started at approximately 7:40 am, and units were immediately dispatched to the school, along with ambulances and other emergency personnel.
Heavy police and medical presence was seen at the high school, which is located in Dallas County, about 40 miles northwest of Des Moines. Streets were blocked off around the school's perimeter and a medical helicopter was also seen at the school around 8:30 a.m.
The first calls reporting the shooting came at 7:37 a.m. according to dispatchers, who were then able to access to cameras in the school and reported seeing someone in the west hallway. A recording of a police scanner had the sound of a dispatcher advising first responder units that there are "reports of multiple subjects injured at this time."
One of the first responding officers, who remains unknown at this time, reported on the radio that he observed a "male subject down in the hallway" with an apparent "self-inflicted" gunshot wound. He later reported that the subject was "deceased."
The high school students were all evacuated to Perry Lutheran Homes and the Iowa National Guard Armory.
A nearby middle school was also placed on lockdown as a precautionary measure--all students and staff remained barricaded in their classrooms and offices.
A nearby middle school was also placed on lockdown as a precautionary measure--all students and staff remained barricaded in their classrooms and offices.
Parents began arriving around 9:00 am to find and pick up their children. According to witnesses and students at Perry High School, several shots were heard being fired about 20 minutes before school was supposed to start.
* What we now know is that a sixth grade student was killed and four other students and a school administrator were injured.
* A teenage student apparently acted alone and ended up killing himself.
* The shooting is just days away from the Iowa caucuses and the GOP presidential primary Jan. 15.
What an end to winter vacation. Horrible.
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