Police say a shooter went to an elementary school in Northern California on Wednesday, shot and killed two kids, and then killed himself.
Around 1 p.m., police were called to Feather River Adventist School because shots had been fired.
“When we got there, we found a person, an adult male,” Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea told reporters. “He was on the ground and seems to have shot himself.”
The shooter is not thought to have any ties to the school. The police are trying to figure out who he is.
“This investigation is still in its very early stages.” “We are still trying to find answers to a lot of questions that we don’t know the answers to,” Honea said.
On Facebook, the FBI office in Sacramento said it was helping the police in the area.
Two of the students who were shot were taken to the hospital, and one of them was flown there by helicopter. The sheriff said that the ages and genders of the children will not be made public at this time.
Feather River is a K–8 school with 35 students. The students have been moved to Oroville’s Church of the Nazarene to be with their parents again.
Around the school, police and fire trucks could be seen.
KRCR says that northbound travel on a part of State Route 70 is blocked at East Gridley Road.
The New York Times talked to Peyton Sherwood, who works at Duke Sherwood Contracting Inc. and has an office close to the school. He said he saw a chopper land on campus.