Two students were shot Tuesday at Gardena High School when a classmate's gun went off. The weapon was in his backpack and it reportedly fired when he put the bag on his desk. A girl was shot in the head and a boy was hit in the neck.
Police interviewed the suspect and his mother for a couple of hours and both were cooperating. Hayes says the boy expressed remorse and his mother was concerned about the two victims.
UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times reports the student involved in that shooting at Gardena High School is holed up in a classroom at the campus. LAUSD spokesman Robert Alaniz tells CBS2 the student brought a gun to the school in a backpack, and the weapon may have discharged accidentally.
Dr. James Ausman of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center said the bullet entered and exited the left side of the female student's head. He said the bullet did not go through her skull, but "caused a skull fracture, and what we call some bruising or contusion of the underlying brain on the left side."
Cynthia Cano, 15, said she was in a Mexican-American social studies class when an announcement was made that the school was in lockdown.
"We heard someone got shot. Everyone was freaking out a little,'' she said in a telephone interview from inside the campus.
Tibbs, a student, said that much remained to be done to Gardena High safer.
“This school is crazy,” she said. “It’s too much. Frankly, we were searching all the time. There are a couple of students here who come here with guns”.
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