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| Portland high school shooting: One student and gunman dead at Reynolds High School | |
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| One student and a gunman have died following a shooting at a US high school on Tuesday morning, according to state authorities. | |
| 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. | 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. |
| Special Weapons and Tactics teams were investigating the school room by room, KGW-TV reported. | |
| Police officers had cordoned off the area and were not allowing people to pass through. Fire engines were also on the scene. | |
| During the incident, students were told over the intercom system that the building was in lock-down and to quietly go to their classrooms, according to eye-witnesses. | |
| Pupils were then evacuated from the school with their hands on their heads to a nearby supermarket car park, where their parents waited to meet them. | |
| Students inside the school during the shooting had texted their parents to alert them to the situation. | |
| Daniel DeLong, 15, told reporters after the shooting that he saw a PE teacher at the school with a bloodied shirt. "I'm a little shaken up," DeLong said, adding: "I'm just worried." | |
| 15-year-old Morgan Rose said she hid in a locker room with another student and two teachers. "It was scary in the moment now knowing everything's OK I'm better," she said. | |
| 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. | 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 in early June. | |
| 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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 | Additional reporting by AP |