A gunman broke into Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis Monday morning, fatally shooting two people and injuring six others before police killed him in an exchange of gunfire.
Students stand in a parking lot near the Central Visual & Performing Arts High School after a reported shooting at the school in St. Louis on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. | David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via APST. LOUIS — A gunman broke into a St. Louis high school Monday morning, fatally shooting a woman and a teenage girl and injuring six others before police killed him in an exchange of gunfire.
Sack said security officials initially became alarmed when the man tried to get into the locked school building. He declined to say how the man eventually got inside, armed with what he described as a long gun. Sack said some of the six people hospitalized suffered gunshot wounds, while others were struck by shrapnel. He did not provide any information on their conditions.
Ninth-grader Nylah Jones told the Post-Dispatch she was in math class when the shooter fired into the room from the hallway. The shooter was unable to get into the room and banged on the door as students piled into a corner, she said.