The student who was shot during the shooting that took place today in the Austin-East high school in Knoxville, Tennesse, died. The school security officer was injured in the shooting. Knox News, citing an anonymous source, he claims that the officer was hit in the hip by at least one bullet and is currently in the operating room. The same source stated that a person was stopped: it would be a minor.
Tennessee City Mayor Indya Kincannon said the injured officer is in stable condition. He met him, together with his wife, at the UT Medical Center where he is hospitalized. Mayor Kincannon then praised the Austin-East School staff and the bravery of the officer who risked his life for the safety of the students. “We all need to work together to stop the violence,” Kincannon said. “It is a great challenge and we will need the whole city to face it.”
Bob Thomas, superintendent of Knox County schools, added on his Twitter account that the building that houses the institute has already been secured and that students who were not involved have already been returned to families in the next field. to the school.
The Knoxville Police Department offers, on its Facebook page, a first reconstruction of the shooting that took place in the school’s high school, saying that around “3.15 pm local time, the officers responded to a call for the presence of a male subject who was armed in the school ». After the agents approached “shots were fired” and the security officer “was hit at least once.” The police report adds that a male student “was pronounced dead instantly, while another was arrested”. “There are no other people affected” concludes the report confirming that the injured officer “is not in danger of life.”
Previous cases in Knoxville, Tennessee
Four teenagers have been shot and killed in recent months in Knoxville, Tennessee, where a high school shooting occurred today. The first case on January 27, a 15-year-old victim, Justin Taylor: a 17-year-old boy accidentally shot him while they were both inside a car and was arrested for manslaughter. Another teenager, 16-year-old Stanley Freeman Jr., was killed on Tarleton Avenue on his way home from school on February 12, and two boys aged 14 and 16 were charged with the murder.
Still without a suspicion, however, the murders of two other 15-year-olds: Janaria Muhammad, found shot dead outside the house where she lived in Selma Avenue on February 16, and Jamarion “Lil Dada” Gillette, who died in hospital. on 10 March after being shot the previous day. Police have so far always claimed that they have no evidence to suggest that the shootings of Muhammad, Gillette, Freeman and Taylor were related.