Washington, Jan. 23 (TNS): Another high school has turned into a scene of carnage in United States, this time in western Kentucky.
At least one person was killed after a shooter opened fire Tuesday at Marshall County High School, Gov. Matt Bevin said. Seven others were taken to hospitals, county emergency management said.
The suspect has been arrested, but no motive has been released.
As word of the shooting spread across the Benton, Kentucky, parents panicked about the fate of their children.
Daniel Austin, a 17-year-old special needs student, was hospitalized. His parents called his cell phone incessantly until someone in the emergency room picked up and said Daniel had been shot.
His mother Andrea rushed to the hospital, bewildered as to why this happened.
“Teachers love him. Students love him. I don’t think anything can say one bad thing about him,” Andrea Austin said. “And that’s not because I’m his mom. Everybody loves him.”
Austin said her son was shot in the right arm, which might need to be amputated. She lauded the heroics of a fellow student and a teacher, who quickly scooped up Daniel after the gunfire stopped, rushed him to a car and drove him to a hospital.
