The unfortunate event caused the death of a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy, who died in the hospital a few hours after the attack at Saugus High School.

The three teenagers who survived being shot at the Santa Clarita, California, high school Thursday are all on the road to recovery, officials said. They were a 15-year-old girl, a 14-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy

Officials reported that the three teenagers, who survived to the attack, are all expected to survive.

One of the students injured, a 15-year-old girl, was shot below the bellybutton and has a bullet lodged in her hip. Another 14-year-old girl was shot in the shoulder and abdomen while the injured 14-year-old boy has already been released from the hospital, officials said.

How it happened

Around 7:30, when students at the school were starting their first-period classes, Nathaniel Berhow a male student, on his 16th birthday, was in the school courtyard when suddenly he took out a a .45-caliber handgun pistol from his backpack and shot five classmates and then himself.

Captain Kent Wegener of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told reporters that the whole event took about 16 seconds.

Paramedics rushed onto the campus, treating the wounded, and law enforcement officers searched nearby neighborhoods for a 16-year-old boy they thought had fled after the shooting. Authorities later said the suspect, identified by neighbors and sheriff’s officials as Nathaniel Berhow, was found on campus with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Officials said he was taken to a hospital and is in grave condition.

The scene at the school at 21900 Centurion Way was confusing, with teenagers walking in a line behind armed law enforcement officers with their arms raised in the air. Many of the injured were treated on campus before being taken to ambulances in the school’s parking lot.

One of the wounded girls was taken to choir teacher Kaitlin Holt by other students where she gave her first aid and called 911.

“I should have never had to treat a gunshot wound as a choir teacher,” said Holt. “And there’s something really wrong and something has to change, ’cause I held a bleeding child today in a room with 40 sobbing children.”

The consternation and dismay caused by this recurrent and regrettable act of violence has marked with profound pain the life of an entire community.

The shooting “shook every one of us to our core,” said Superintendent Mike Kuhlman.

The search for answers

“We have not yet established a motive or a nexus between the subject and his victims other than to say that they were all students at the high school together,” Wegener said.

Authorities said that so far there is no evidence to suggest the suspect acted on behalf of a group or with any co-conspirators.

Investigators were alerted to a social media page after the shooting that purportedly belongs to the suspect and contained a post that read, “Saugus have fun at school tomorrow.”

“I can confirm that that was posted to his account, and I can also confirm that it has been changed since this incident, which means there is somebody else that has access to this account , be it a hacker, be it a friend that has his password,” Wegener told reporters. “That was posted at one point. We are aware of it and we are researching the source, when it was posted and when it was taken down.”

The suspect’s mother and girlfriend are both speaking with detectives, according to authorities.

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Patrick Moody, portavoz del hospital, no proporcionó al instante descripción de lesiones y edades específicas de los heridos, pero sí confirmó que cuatro personas de la escuela fueron transportadas al Hospital Henry Mayo Newhall para recibir tratamiento.

Las autoridades policiales desplegadas en la escena del crimen, luego de tomar el control de la zona se distribuyeron para capturar al perpetrador del ataque.

Para estos momentos se conoce que luego de cuatro horas de búsquedas dieron con el supuesto tirador al que no han identificado, solo se sabe que es un adolescente de 15 años y que sería parte de la comunidad estudiantil de Saugus High School.

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Tiroteo matutino

La mañana de Santa Clarita se vio perturbada cuando los medios de comunicación de la locailidad empezaron a irradiar que un tiroteo estaba en desarrollo en el campus en el 21900 de Centurion Way alrededor de las 7:40 a.m. de Saugus High School.

Las versiones preliminares hablaban de al menos una media docena de heridos y un nutrido contingente de policías y paramédicos respondieron al llamado.

Los First Response Teams invadieron el campus, tratando a los heridos mientras las autoridades peinaban los vecindarios cercanos en busca de un niño de 15 años sospechoso del tiroteo. Agentes de la Oficina de Alcohol, Tabaco, Armas de Fuego y Explosivos y el equipo SWAT del Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Los Ángeles también ayudaron en la búsqueda.

Según declaraciones del el sheriff Alex Villanueva, después de aproximadamente una hora, las autoridades dijeron que el sospechoso, que se cree que es un estudiante de la escuela, había sido detenido. El adolescente, que no fue identificado inmediatamente, está siendo tratado en un hospital y se encuentra en una condición desconocida.

Mañana de conmoción

La escena en la escuela secundaria fue caótica. Nuevamente las cámara captaron las imágenes de adolescentes caminando en una fila detrás de agentes de la ley armados con los brazos en alto inmediatamente después del tiroteo.

Muchos de los heridos estaban siendo tratados en un área cubierta de hierba en el campus antes de ser colocados en camillas y transportados a las ambulancias en el estacionamiento de la escuela. Al menos una persona fue encontrada herida en la sala del coro de la escuela, dijeron las autoridades.

De acuerdo a un reporte elaborado por Los Ángeles Times, algunos estudiantes permanecieron encerrados en las aulas durante más de una hora mientras las autoridades buscaban al tirador. Eventualmente, fueron conducidos fuera del campus por los ayudantes del sheriff. Algunos estaban llorando. Mientras caminaban, un estudiante hizo una pregunta en voz alta sobre las mentes de muchos otros en todo el estado: “¿Qué clase de mundo es éste?”

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Todas las escuelas en el Distrito Escolar Unificado William S. Hart fueron cerradas mientras las autoridades buscaban al tirador. Las autoridades habían estado centrando gran parte de su atención en el área rocosa detrás de la escuela secundaria adyacente a un arroyo donde las autoridades pensaban que el tirador podría haberse escondido. Los agentes del orden público también estaban registrando los patios traseros de las casas a lo largo de Sycamore Creek Drive. No está claro dónde fue finalmente localizado.

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