Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

Shit, this really hits home. My dad works in the Anderson County school system.

fffffff

the shooter is a teenager, who knows what the motive is, who knows what his intent was.

Father of the shooter found dead.

The three victims at the school were struck by bullets from a handgun, Capt. Garland Major of the Anderson County Sheriff's Office said. One male student was hit in a leg and another boy was struck in a foot. The female teacher was wounded in a shoulder, Major said.

This sounds promising but please please please let these children and their teacher survive.

update:

Both children shot were little boys; one, who was shot in the foot, has been discharged from the hospital already. The other boy was hit in the leg and his current condition is unknown. The teacher was shot in the shoulder and has also been released.

good

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A 14-year-old boy shot and killed his father then drove to an elementary school in South Carolina and opened fire with a handgun, wounding two children and a teacher on Wednesday, authorities said.

Volunteer firefighter Jamie Brock held the suspect down on a playground behind Townville Elementary School in Anderson County until police arrived, giving a teacher time to get students inside the building, authorities said. The teenager never entered the school, located near the Georgia state line about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Atlanta.

"He risked his life to mitigate this incident," Anderson County emergency services director Taylor Jones said of Brock. "He used enough force to take him to the ground."

U.S. schools have taken added security precautions since 2012 when a gunman shot dead 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Wednesday's shooting left a 6-year-old boy in critical condition and undergoing surgery, Scott Stoller, Anderson County's director of emergency services, told the Anderson Independent Mail.

The other boy and a female teacher were in good condition, said Juana Slade, spokeswoman for AnMed Health Medical Center. Both boys were 6 years old, the Independent Mail reported.

The teenager shot his 47-year-old father, Jeffrey DeWitt Osborne, in the chest then drove a pickup truck about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the school where he crashed the vehicle into the fence surrounding the playground, authorities said. The teenager was not named.

Thank goodness.

sad the other one is in critical condition

My comment was an xpost to sleeve btw

fuckin thank god for that firefighter

Active shooter reported at Ohio State

turned out to be an active stabber/driver. fortunately the suspect the only one killed (known of at this time, at least)

and is somali. I look forward to a sober and thoughtful response from america.

ah christ

9 shot, 3 dead in Ft. Lauderdale
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4095720/Nine-shot-one-dead-shooting-Ft-Lauderdale-Hollywood-Airport.html

reports of more gun fire just now

multiple shooters, multiple locations being reported but not confirmed

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article124963889.html

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I'm at the Ft. Lauderdale Airport. Shots have been fired. Everyone is running.

a friend of mine is also on tarmac in a plane waiting for this shit to resolve

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More shooting or something. I'm on the Tarmac on foot now. Yikes,

press conference confirms only one shooter

apparently he flew into florida today. the gun was stored in a checked bag.

Didn't know you could check guns, christ

if only everyone else had a gun in their check bag they could have stopped him.

apparently he was coming from canada

very few places you can't have a gun xxps

why do they always think there was a second shooter?

very few places you can't have a gun

^^^ courthouses and that's about it iirc

why do they always think there was a second shooter?

― Treeship, Friday, January 6, 2017 3:52 PM (four minutes ago)

it was being reported on police scanners . I guess chalk it up to mass confusion from various panicked sources.

And Trump's inauguration. xp

The story out of Rick Scott's press conference: he "reached out multiple times" to Trump and Pence, even once calling the latter "vice president." A reporter asked if he'd reached out to the president, i.e. Obama. "I have not."

Reported he had the gun packed in his luggage, picked it up at the luggage claim and then somehow loaded it. Are you allowed to carry bullets with you? Anyway, also reported he had a conceal carry permit and a Florida military ID. Has any of that stuff been confirmed yet? (Not to mention his name, which already leaked?)

I thought ammo had to be checked separately, but I guess there's nothing stopping you from loading yr weapon once yr in the baggage claim

Yeah, seems to be a pretty big loophole, a la allowing passengers to carry on matches post shoe bomber frenzy.

it's baggage claim

you can meet your dad there

and shoot him

a quick shootout with dad in baggage claim bc he can walk in there without passing through security

what could be more American

that's the original ending of Love Actually

all I shot for Christmas is you

(ok nuff about that - my friend is from that area so she's p broken up about it, after already being shattered by PUlse locally last year).

airport security is only meant to protect people getting on the airplane, once you're off the thing it's anybody's game.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/five-dead-quebec-city-mosque-shooting-mosque-president-022604918.html

unsurprisingly every comment thread on an article about Quebec is cancer

this so sad & terrible

not a shooting spree, it's a terrorist attack.

Distinction w out a difference these days