Missouri: Shooter kills two before being shot dead by police

A gunman opened fire at St. Louis high school in Missouri in US killing at least twopeople. According to St. Louis Police Commissioner Mike Sack, six more people are injured. Mack added that police officers fatally shot the suspect.

Police responded to Central Visual and Performing Arts High School at 9:10 a.m. on a call of an active shooter.

When police officials arrived at the scene, students were running out of the school. Some of them told the officers that the shooteer had a "long gun". The officers then confronted the shooter who was fatally gunned down by police fire.

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"Officers began to clear the building looking for the shooter," the police chief said. "Upon hearing gunfire, they ran to that gunfire, located the shooter, and engaged that shooter in an exchange of gunfire."

He said the gunman was shot and killed.

Students told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that they locked classroom doors when they heard gunshots, while others fled the building.
Nylah Jones, a student at the school, told the newspaper the gunman fired from a hallway into the room where she was in math class but was unable to get into the classroom.

"We just heard gunshots," she said.
School shootings are frequent in the United States.

In May, a teenage gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

A 16-year-old boy pleaded guilty in Michigan on Monday to shooting dead four classmates at his high school last year with a gun purchased as a gift by his father.

(With inputs from agencies)

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