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A 15-year-old boy took 23 students and a teacher hostage at a high school in a small Wisconsin town before turning the gun on himself, police sources announced. The boy was hospitalized with a gunshot wound, with no immediate word on his condition, but the captives were unharmed, according to officials in Marinette, Wisconsin, where the drama unfolded Monday. Marinette police chief Jeff Skorik said that earlier reports appearing on social network sites that students had been injured in the attack were incorrect. Skorik said at a late-night press conference that the hostage-taker had shot himself as police approached him after hearing three gunshots go off in the classroom. The male gunman, whose identity was not made public by police, was transported to a local hospital, but his condition was not known late Monday. "Emergency rescue personnel on stand-by treated the suspect and transported him to Bay Area Medical Center," a police statement said. The drama came to an end at 8:03 pm (0103 GMT Tuesday) moments after the gunman had released five students to allow them to use the washrooms. After hearing gunfire, officers who had been communicating with the teacher immediately entered the room and saw the boy shoot himself. The boy, a student at Marinette High School, had entered the classroom with two handguns, a .22-caliber semi-automatic and a 9-mm pistol. His motive remained unclear, Skorik said. AFP |
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