A Santa Fe High School junior cries in the arms of her mother after the shooting Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle/APPolice say eight students and a teacher are believed to have been killed in a shooting at a US high school in Texas. The shooting at Santa Fe High, southeast of Houston, was the 22nd school shooting in the US so far this year and, according to witnesses, began with a person walking into an art class shortly after 8am and opening fire with what appeared to be a shotgun. Students said they heard the fire alarm go off and then several shots rang out just before 8am local time (2pm BST). “Everybody thought it was a normal procedure fire drill. Next thing we know, we hear three gunshots, all the explosions, people just telling us ‘run, run’”, said Dakota Shrader, a student at the…

Source: The Times May 18, 2018 16:14 UTC