California, Nov 15 :
Two were killed and three injured when a student gunman opened fire at a Southern California high school, killing two students and wounding three others before he shot himself in the head and was captured in grave condition, authorities said. The shooting occurred around 7:30 am local time on Thursday at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Shauna Orandi, 16, said she was in her Spanish class doing homework when she heard four gunshots that she initially mistook as instruments from a band class. She said a student burst into the room saying he’d seen the gunman, and her classmates were stunned into silence. “My worst nightmare actually came true,” she said later as she left a nearby park with her father. “This is it. I’m gonna die.” Still carrying a backpack laden with books, freshman Rosie across the street to a home, where a person she didn’t know gave shelter to her and about 10 other students. She said the noises she heard “sounded like balloons” popping. She realized they were gunshots when she saw other students running. “We never really thought this would happen in our school,” she said. Names of the students who were killed weren’t released.
