A 15-year-old student opened fire with a handgun inside a rural Kentucky high school on Tuesday, killing two of his classmates, injuring 17 and sending hundreds fleeing for safety. Boy, 15, in custody after two killed in US high school shootingPolice were seen leading a teenager away in handcuffs and said the suspect will be charged with murder. It was the country’s first fatal school shooting of 2018. Emergency crews at Marshall County High School after the fatal school shooting (Ryan Hermens/The Paducah Sun via AP) “This is a wound that is going to take a long time to heal. Marshall County High School is about 30 minutes from Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky, where a 1997 mass shooting killed three and injured five.

Source: Irish Independent January 23, 2018 19:18 UTC