Another school shooting occurred on Thursday, this time in rural California. A 16-year-old student armed with a shotgun walked into his high school and fired at a fellow student, leaving the victim seriously wounded. The shooter fired at another student, but missed his target. Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said he was carrying multiple rounds of shotgun ammunition.

Donny Youngblood: “There was an active shooter that had — didn’t show up for school this morning for the first period. He then interrupted the class halfway through it, armed with a shotgun. He fired the first round, striking another student; that student is at the hospital, a 16-year-old who is in critical condition but stable at this point. He then tried to engage a second student that he named and tried to shoot him and missed. The teacher at that point was trying to get the students out of the classroom and engage the shooter, who had numerous rounds of shotgun shells, a 12-gauge shotgun, numerous rounds in his pockets, and he engaged the student, or the suspect, with — in conversation.”

According to fellow students, the shooter had previously been bullied by other students and had been expelled after it was discovered he kept a “hit list” of people he wanted to target.