The shooting occurred at a private K-8 school in Palermo. The children’s conditions were not immediately known.
By Associated PressPolice officers stand near a body covered by a tarp outside of Feather River Adventist School after a shooting Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in Oroville, Calif.
PALERMO, Calif. — wo children were wounded in a shooting Wednesday at a small religious K-8 school in Northern California and the shooter died from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot, sheriff’s officials said. The children’s conditions were not immediately known. The shooting occurred Wednesday afternoon at the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists, a private, K-8 school in Palermo, a community of 5,500 people about 65 miles north of Sacramento.
Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea said the 911 calls reported “an individual on campus who had fired shots at students,” and said that the shooter did not appear to have a connection to the school. The motive was not immediately known, he continued.Authorities rushed students to the Oroville Church of the Nazarene to be reunited with their families, the sheriff’s office said.
The school has been open since 1965 and caters to fewer than three dozen children, according to its website.
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