Idaho- As per police report, a girl from sixth grade about the age of 11-12, opened fired at her middle school in the northwestern US state of Idaho on Thursday, leaving three people injured.
The place where this incident occurred is Rigby Middle School located near Idaho Falls. The student who initiated the shootings has not been named yet.
The police said that one adult and two students have been injured. While the adult was released from the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center after receiving treatment, the two students -- a girl and a boy -- will remain in the hospital overnight. Hospital officials in a press conference said that the students had injuries that were non-life-threatening.
Jefferson County sheriff Steve Anderson said that the sixth-grader retrieved a handgun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds of shots inside of the school and out at around 9 AM. The Sheriff's office also added that she first shot two people in the hallway after which she went out and shot another person.
"During the shooting a teacher disarmed the student, and detained her until law enforcement took her into custody," Steve Anderson told in the press conference.
The FBI, as well as local law enforcement, are conducting an investigation into the matter.
Once the investigation concludes, "appropriate" charges with the possible inclusion of three counts of attempted murder will be filed on the 6th grader, said the Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Taylor.
"I was really scared. I almost started crying, but I was trying to help my other friends that were crying feel better. We were so worried that someone was going to come in after they were pounding on our door, like they were going to try to get in and hurt us," said Lucy Long, a sixth-grader who witnessed the incident unfold before her eyes.
Gun violence such as this is a common occurrence in the US, with mass shootings at FedEx facility in Indianapolis, an office building in California, and a grocery store in Colorado coming to light in the recent weeks. According to the Gun Violence Archive, the US reported 43,000 gun-related deaths last year including suicides.
President Joe Biden termed the rampant incidents of gun violence in the country as an "epidemic" and an "international embarrassment."