A middle school shooting that left two students injured in Los Angeles was the result of a semi-automatic handgun going off by accident in a 12-year-old girl's bag, police said. Both are expected to fully recover, and Los Angeles police said they did not believe the shooting was intentional. Some of her friends told reporters that she claims the gun "went off" when she dropped her backpack. Chief Steve Zipperman of the Los Angeles School Police Department said Thursday it was unclear how the gun wound up on the secure campus. The image of 12-year-old children bringing guns into the classroom has reignited the long-running debate on America's epidemic of gun violence and the ready accessibility of weapons.

Source: dna February 03, 2018 03:11 UTC