Louis until 5:45 p.m., according to the weather service. Thursday afternoon’s rainfall – about 2 to 3 inches – was bad enough that a flash flood warning was issued for St. He did not clarify how the gunman was able to get into the school or how he got access to the rifle, adding that police are working with the ATF.Residents describe having to flee their homes barefoot after record-breaking flooding in St. Sack said the doors at the school were locked, which slowed the gunman. Doors were locked unclear how gunman got in "He knows to call on God when he's in trouble," his mother, Jordette Barnes, said. Bronner said he searched for exits - a window and a vent were inside the closet - but then reconsidered.īronner texted his mother where he was and what was happening and saying he was OK, and he read a Bible verse - John 3:16 - to his class.
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"So we had to wait a little longer before the assistant principal came up to one of the windows that was locked, and when we opened it, the teacher said to come on, and we all had to jump out of the window."įreshman Jawae Bronner said that after someone announced a code word indicating a threat inside the school, his visual arts teacher immediately locked the classroom door and ushered about 20 students into a closet.Īt one point, during the roughly the hour and a half they were inside the space, the teacher announced that he could hear gunfire, he said. "I really want to know how did that man get inside the school? I’m just trying to find some answers."
18, but now we have to plan her funeral," he told KSDK. "My daughter was planning on coming out here to California and celebrate her birthday with me on Nov. That was my baby."īell said his daughter had plans to go to California to spend her 16th birthday with him. No matter how I felt, I could always talk to her and it was alright.
"She was the girl I loved to see and loved to hear from. "She was joyful, wonderful and just a great person,” he said to KSDK. The 15-year-old sophomore had an outgoing personality and was a member of her high school's junior varsity dance team, Bell told the news station. Police initially identified her as a 16-year-old girl.Īndre Bell, Alexzandria's adoptive father who lives in Los Angeles, called losing her "a nightmare," NBC affiliate KSDK reported. Louis Office of the Medical Examiner as the second victim. Jean Kuczka, a 61-year-old health teacher at the high school, was killed, said Abbey Kuczka, her daughter.Īlexzandria Bell, 15, was identified by the St. “Everyone who survived here is going to take home trauma.” Two victims dead “While on paper we might have nine victims, eight who were transported and one remained, we have hundreds of others,” Sack said earlier. People gather outside after a shooting at the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. They located the shooter eight minutes after arriving on scene, engaging in a gunfight and securing him. and officers arrived on scene four minutes later. Sack said a call came in from the high school for an active shooter at 9:11 a.m. Officers are still working on a motive, but Sack said there are “suspicions that there may be some mental illness that he is experiencing.” “There was no mystery about what was going to happen,” he said. Sack said the gunman entered the school with a rifle in an “aggressive, violent manner" and had almost a dozen 30-round magazines on him. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Interim Chief Mike Sack told reporters at a news conference. He was identified as a 2021 graduate of Central with no criminal history, St.
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