It was the final minutes of class for middle schoolers at the Bay Area Technology School in Oakland when the shots were heard.
Teachers and staff first thought the noise was firecrackers, said Seth Feldman, the school’s executive director. But it quickly became clear this was the latest in an epidemic of campus violence in the U.S.
Police now say two gunmen opened fire Wednesday inside the entrance of Rudsdale Newcomer High School, which is in the front of an education complex that includes Bay Area Tech. When it was over, two students and four staff members were wounded.
