Iowa shooting: Police say multiple gunshot victims in high school shooting | BBC News
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- 4 Jan 2024
Multiple people have been injured following a shooting at Perry High School in the US state of Iowa on Thursday morning, police ...
I just want to take you back to Iowa, though, and that's a breaking story that one student or one person has been killed in an active shooter situation in Iowa in the past few hours. We can hear there. Now, live from the Sheriff's office.
I'm the Sheriff here in Dallas County. I'm joined by our state, local, and federal partners here at the Perry High School. This morning, at approximately 7:37 AM, we had a Sears radio activation at the high school, which indicated an active shooter situation. Our officer first arrived within seven minutes of that activation and located multiple gunshot victims. We're still unclear of exactly how many are injured or what the extent of those are, but we're working on that right now. There is no further danger to the public. The community is safe. We're just now working backwards, trying to figure out everything that happened and make notifications. There'll be another update later on today. It's still very early. This happened at approximately 7:37 this morning. School didn't start yet, luckily. There was very few students and faculty in the building, which I think contributed to a good outcome in that sense. But we'll We'll have more information later on this afternoon. We will not be releasing any more information in the meantime. So please be patient with us so that we can talk with these victims and their families and try and figure out what happened. We won't be answering any questions today either or right now.
We'll let you know later on this afternoon, what time we'll be meeting back with you again, and we hope to provide more detail then. Just to be clear, you don't have a number of people who were injured in this? We're still working that. Have you identified the shooter? Yes. What's their current status? Are they alive? We'll get to that later on this afternoon. Can you confirm the shooter was a student at the school? I can't confirm that right now. Can you confirm me if you can identify? No, not right now. Is it the Reunification Center for Families and Students right now? Great point. The Reunification Center has already been established, and I think all the kids have been reunified already. So we're good in in that area. Thank you. Are there any talk with your members that were hurt? I can't answer that question yet. Have you made any applications or arrests? Can't answer that question yet either. We'll take no further questions at this time. We'll see you this afternoon. I will let you know. We don't know.
Iowa Department of Public Safety will push out a message as far as location and time of the next press conference. If you go to the Iowa Department of Public Safety website, it'll be posted there probably shortly afternoon. I'm sorry.
The Sheriff's office there in Iowa confirming that they were called to Perry High School at 7:37 local time to an active shooter situation. Officers encountered multiple gunshot victims. They said that they were unclear how many victims or the extent of their injuries. Didn't confirm whether or not there were any deceased people. They said that there is no further threat to the public, and they are trying to work out what happened. Wouldn't confirm whether or not the shooter had been injured, killed, or arrested. We'll bring you more on that as soon as we hear any more from the Sheriff's Department there in Iowa.