Two students were wounded, and a gunman is dead, in a shooting at an elementary school in Oroville, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.
The shooting took place at Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists, roughly 70 miles north of Sacramento, the Sheriff’s Office announced in a news alert shortly before 2 p.m.
Deputies found two wounded students. It was unclear how severely the children were wounded, but authorities confirmed both were hospitalized. Sheriff Kory Honea told news station KSBW Action News that one of the children had been airlifted to a hospital. Their ages and genders have not been revealed.
The shooter, identified as an adult man, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to authorities.
Students at the school were being taken to the nearby Oroville Church of the Nazarene, where they were set to be reunited with their parents.
