New mass shooting plot foiled in US
A new plot to conduct a mass shooting in a school in California has been thwarted by US police just two days after the deadly rampage at a college near Roseburg, Oregon.
Police arrested four students on Saturday for plotting to carry out gunfire in Summerville High School in Tuolumne, California.
The students said "that they were going to come on campus and shoot and kill as many people as possible," Tuolumne County Sheriff Jim Mel said.
They were in the process of obtaining the weapons to use against the victims, for which officers found a list that included the names of students and staff members.
The arrest came after a gunman, identified as Chris Harper Mercer, opened fire inside a classroom at the Umpqua Community College on Thursday, killing nine people and injuring seven others.
Also on Friday, a shooting near a convenience store in Baltimore, Maryland left one dead and four others injured. Police said the shooter is at large and the investigation is still underway.
A similar incident in West Central Fresno, California on Saturday left one person injured. Neighbors said they heard one gunshot in the area of Dakota and Brawley, which led to the injury.
Since the 2012 massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, there have been 994 such incidents resulting in roughly 1,236 deaths in the US.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), firearms are the cause of death for more than 33,000 people in the United States every year, a number that includes accidental discharge, murder and suicides, which are on the increase.
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