Three dead and eight injured are the latest toll from a Michigan high school shooting. A 15-year-old was stopped by the police: it was he who opened fire at the Oxford school in Oxford Township, a town of 22,000 people 50 kilometers from Detroit. It is not clear why he acted.
It was 1pm yesterday, local time, when 911 - the American emergency number - was stormed by dozens of phone calls to intervene in high school. The agents arrived within minutes and blocked the teenager still holding a semi-automatic pistol with which he had fired 15 to 20 shots.
Once arrested, he chose not to speak and asked to be assisted by a lawyer. For now it is believed that he acted alone but it is not known if his target was anyone in particular.
"I am shocked and devastated," said Tim Throne, the Oxford Community Schools Superintendent. "They were minutes of chaos", said some high school students without hiding their fear but defining themselves prepared for such a circumstance given the various exercises conducted by the school.
The victims are two girls aged 14 and 17 and a boy of 16.
(Unioneonline / ss)