Boy, 9, shoots three other kids with a BB gun at an elementary school in California at the same time as a student killed two teenagers at a nearby high school – but police insist the incidents are NOT connected
- Police say a 9-year-old boy brought a BB gun to the Washington Elementary STEM Magnet School Thursday
- Three students were shot, but did not require medical attention
- The incident came at the same time as a fatal shooting at a Santa Clarita high school 30 miles away
- Pasadena police don’t have a motive for the BB attack, but haven’t found a connection between the two acts of gun violence
- The Pasadena School District said they take ‘all incidents involving the safety of students and schools very seriously’
A nine-year-old boy allegedly shot three other students with a BB gun at a Southern California elementary school around the same time a student carried out a fatal shooting at a nearby high school.
The BB shooting happened around 7:30 a.m. Thursday in suburban Pasadena at Washington Elementary STEM Magnet School.
Police say the child shot the BB gun in the school’s playground, grazing the victims.
Police Lt. Bill Grisafe tells Southern California News Group the victims were not seriously injured and didn’t require medical treatment.
Washington Elementary STEM Magnet School in Pasadena, California where three students were shot by a student, who brought a BB gun and fired in the school playground. Police are investigating if the 9-year-old will be charged
The playground at the Washington Elementary STEM Magnet, where a 9-year-old is alleged to have carried a BB gun, shooting at three youngsters. They did not require medical attention
He says a mother of one of the victims called police at around 8:45 a.m. and they contacted the boy and his parents.
‘The Pasadena Unified School District takes all incidents involving the safety of students and schools very seriously,’ said Hilda Ramirez Horvath with the Pasadena Unified School District told KABC.
Police say it’s undetermined if the boy will be arrested and that is no indication of any connection to the shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, 30 miles away.
The scene of a BB gun shooting at a school in Pasadena, at the same time on Thursday, and about 30 miles away a teenaged-gunman killed two students
Gracie Anne Muehlberger, 16, and Dominic Blackwell, 14, were shot and killed by gunman Nathaniel Berhow, 16, at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita.
Teenage shooter Nathaniel Berhow, 16, tried to kill himself after shooting five others but failed and he is now in the hospital in a critical condition. His motive remains unknown
Mia Page Tretta was injured, as was another girl whose family have given her name only as Addison.
Berhow died in the hospital Friday night from injuries after shooting himself in the head once his killing spree was over.
His motive for the killings remains unclear.
Neighbors said the student was struggling to cope with the death of his father and that he was ‘unsociable’.
There were no warning signs, however, that he was capable of such violence according to police.
In the space of 16 seconds, he had unloaded the entire magazine of his .45 semi-automatic rifle.
Authorities say more people would have died if three off-duty police officers who happened to be dropping off their children at the school at the time hadn’t been there.
Gracie Anne Muehlberger, 16, was shot and killed by gunman Nathaniel Berhow on Thursday
Dominic Blackwell, 14, was also shot and killed by gunman Nathaniel Berhow, 16, at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita