The shooting is reported to have been a murder-suicide. Two fatalities reported as of 11:15am PT. The shooter is said to have been related to the teacher who was shot dead, and there are reports that this was a domestic violence incident.
Two children injured in the shooting incident were airlifted to a nearby hospital.
Children from North Park Elementary School are being evacuated to other locations, including a nearby high school. Local TV news reports show scenes of chaos and anxiety, as nervous parents receive confusing and conflicting information from the school system and from authorities.
“The violence is an open wound on a city trying to recover from a prolonged bankruptcy and the 2015 terror attack,” reports the Los Angeles Times:
Multiple people were injured in a shooting Monday morning at an elementary school in San Bernardino in what officials are describing as a murder-suicide.
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said four victims were being treated and a suspect was possibly down as well. No other details were immediately available.
“We believe this to be a murder suicide,” he tweeted. “Happened in a class room. Two students have been transported to the hospital.”
The gunfire occurred just after 10:30 a.m. at North Park School, 5378 N. H Street.
The San Bernardino County Fire Department reported multiple gunshot victims and a triage area had been set up.
“It’s a developing situation,” said Eric Sherwin, a Fire Department spokesman.
The shooting comes as San Bernardino has seen a major increase in violence.
There were 62 slayings in San Bernardino in 2016 — a 41% increase from the year before. It was the deadliest year in the city since 1995.
The violence is an open wound on a city trying to recover from a prolonged bankruptcy and the 2015 terror attack.
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