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Portland high school shooting: Gunperson dead, say police Portland high school shooting: One student and gunman dead, say police
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A suspect is dead after a shooting incident at a US high school, authorities said. One student and a gunman have died following a shooting at a US high school on Tuesday morning, according to state authorities.
The situation is now stable following reports of shots fired at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, near Portland, Oregon, Multnomah County sheriff's office said. The situation was stable at around 9am, an hour after shots were reportedly fired at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, near the US city of Portland, Oregan, Multnomah County sheriff's office said.
TV news showed students being led from the high school in the town of Troutdale with their hands on their heads. Shots were reported shortly after 8am Tuesday. Students inside the school were texting with their parents. The building was put into lock-down while students were evacuated from the school with their hands on their heads to a nearby supermarket car park, where their parents waited to meet them.
A parent interviewed on TV said she had heard from her son inside the school that he was OK, but she was worried. Police told parents to go to a nearby parking lot to meet with their sons and daughters as they evacuated the school. Pupils inside the school during the incident had texted their parents to alert them to the situation.
More follows One mother interviewed on TV said she had heard from her son inside the school that he was okay, but added that she was still worried.
The shooting comes after a lone gunman entered a small university in Seattle shot and killed one person and injured two.
A 26-year-old suspect is being held without bail. Police said he had no connection to the university, but had allegedly planned to kill as many people as he could before turning the gun on himself.
Meanwhile on Monday, two officers were shot dead by a man and a woman in Las Vegas. The pair are believed to have links to the white supremacist movement.
Gun control is a fiercely divisive issue in the United States, where the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution, alongside free speech and freedom of religion.
President Barack Obama's failed last year to introduced measures for broader background checks on gun purchases, along with proposals for a ban on military-style assault rifles and limits on ammunition capacity.
Pressure to tackle gun laws increased in December 2012, when 20 children and six adults were shot at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Additional reporting by AP