Two teenagers at a Glendale, AZ high school were killed Friday morning in a shooting that police are calling a tragic situation.
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After a report of gunfire on Friday morning, police rushed to the school and found the two girls under a covered patio on the campus, Breeden said.
Their bodies were found near the cafeteria after a shooting was reported at the high school just before 8 a.m., police said.
“Information gathered by detectives reveals the two girls were very close friends, appearing to also be in a relationship”, and no other suspects are being sought, the police statement said.
When she called her parents to tell them she was safe, “my mom was actually really relieved because she was watching it on the news”, she said. Authorities and school officials have not discussed the conditions of the teens.
Police arrived within two minutes of being called, and the school of more than 2,000 students went on lockdown, Breeden said. “But we got a flood of calls from parents not getting social media or automated calls so we worked with teachers to get students to contact their parents”. The danger at the campus was over, police said, as anxious parents crowded stores nearby to await word on their children.
Breeden said she didn’t know what led up to the shooting or whether the girls knew each other.
The school asked parents to wait at the Walmart parking lot at 75th and Glendale avenues, where a Mercy Maricopa crisis mobile team was on-scene.
The incident was isolated and the school and neighborhood is safe, according to Glendale Police Department.
Phuong said May had a part in the school musical, and she wanted to learn to drive this summer.
“I never imagined something like this would happen at my school”, Arianna said.
School district officials said parents were bused to the school to be reunited with their children. You don’t know who’s being bullied. You don’t know anything.
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Superintendent Brian Capistran said social workers from the school district were providing support for students and faculty.
