You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

California: Police Say They Thwarted a School Shooting at High School

HeadlineFeb 22, 2018

Police in South Whittier, California, say they’ve thwarted a planned mass shooting by a 17-year-old at the community’s El Camino High School. A school resources officer says he overheard the student mumble to himself that he was planning to bring a gun to campus. After serving a search warrant at the boy’s home, police say they discovered a weapons cache of two semiautomatic rifles, two handguns and 90 high-capacity magazines.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top