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Police: Gun taken away earlier was used in school shooting

St. Louis police have confirmed that the gunman who forced his way into a high school, killing a student and a teacher and leaving seven others wounded, used an assault rifle that had been taken away from him earlier this month

The Independent UK

Orlando Harris’ gun was taken away over mental health fears. How did he go on to commit the St Louis shooting?

It has been revealed that the gunman had a history of mental illness and that the firearm used in the deadly attack had been taken away from him just over one week earlier

The Independent UK

Gun used in St. Louis school shooting is the same one his family took away from him

ST. LOUIS — The gun Orlando Harris used to kill two people at his former high school Monday was the same AR-15-style rifle his family had asked authorities for help removing from him nine days earlier, police said Wednesday evening.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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‘The drills worked.’ St. Louis officials laud police, school response during shooting

ST. LOUIS — Police, fire and school officials say all their work training for active shooters saved lives this week.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Police took gun from Orlando Harris months before St Louis school shooting

Family reported the weapon to police and asked for it to be removed from home, officials say

The Independent UK

St Louis school shooting suspect Orlando Harris’ had ‘intended targets’ and history of mental health issues

Harris killed 10th grade student Alexzandria Bell and health teacher Jean Kuczka, 61, before he was gunned down by police eight minutes into the rampage

The Independent UK

Gun was earlier confiscated from St. Louis school shooter

Relatives of the gunman who killed a student and a teacher during a St. Louis school shooting had long been concerned about his mental health and worked with police to take a gun away from him — possibly the same gun used in the attack

The Independent UK

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After St. Louis shooting, Missouri Democrat Busch Valentine calls for stricter gun laws

After a gunman killed two people at a St. Louis high school on Monday and injured seven more, Democrats once again renewed their call for Congress to step in and pass more restrictive gun laws.

Tribune News Service

St. Louis school shooter had AR-15-style weapon and 600 rounds of ammo

Authorities found a handwritten note from the suspect in which he spoke about carrying out the shooting.

Axios

US school shooter armed with rifle, 600 rounds: Police

Officials say police responded swiftly to St Louis attack, but it remains unclear how gunman entered the high school.

Al Jazeera

St Louis school shooter had more than 600 rounds of ammunition, police say

Missouri gunman left note detailing loneliness and life of isolation leading to ‘perfect storm for a mass shooter’

The Guardian - US

St. Louis school gunman left note describing lonely life, ‘perfect storm’ for mass shooting

ST. LOUIS — The gunman who killed a student and teacher at a south St. Louis high school before police killed him Monday had about 600 rounds of ammunition inside the school and left behind handwritten notes about being a loner with no social life, which he called the perfect…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Everything we know about St Louis school shooting that left three dead

The gunman killed a teacher and student before being fatally shot by responding police officers

The Independent UK

Girl killed at St. Louis high school was 'wonderful, joyful'

The father of a teenager killed in a school shooting in St. Louis says she was a “joyful, wonderful” girl who loved to dance

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Orlando Harris: What we know about former student, 19, who killed two in St Louis school shooting

‘There are suspicions that there may have been some mental illness that he was experiencing,’ police chief says

Axios

White House calls for assault weapons ban after mass shooting at St. Louis school

It's one of 581 mass shootings in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

Wales Online

Teen in US breaks into school and shoots eight people

Former student who left just last year burst into classroom shouting 'You are all going to die'

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Teacher and teen student killed in shooting at south St. Louis high school. Suspect dead

ST. LOUIS — A teenage girl and a health teacher were shot to death and six others were injured Monday morning at Central Visual & Performing Arts High School in south St. Louis. Police confronted the gunman inside the school and killed him.

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Evening Standard

School shooting in St Louis, Missouri, leaves three dead including gunman

A woman and a teenage girl were killed in the attack, before the gunman was shot dead by police

Al Jazeera

US school shooting leaves two dead, suspect killed by police

Shooting at St Louis high school forces terrified students to barricade themselves in classrooms, jump from windows.

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