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Two young children in kindergarten are in stable condition after being injured in a shooting at their rural school in Northern California. The suspect, who has a criminal record and mental health issues, shot the children before being apprehended by authorities.
Authored by Soumya Karlamangla and Orlando Mayorquín
Soumya Karlamangla provided coverage from San Francisco, while Orlando Mayorquín reported from Oroville, California.
Two young children in kindergarten were walking to the bathroom during lunchtime on Wednesday at Feather River Adventist School. It was meant to be a quick trip before returning to class.
Instead, not long after, they were wounded by a gunman who shot them.
Two young boys, Roman Mendez, aged 6, and Elias Wolford, aged 5, were quickly taken from their small school near Oroville, California. One was transported by ambulance and the other by helicopter to hospitals with urgency.
Vanessa Diaz expressed her distress while visiting her brother Roman in the intensive care unit, where he is still unconscious. She described the situation as heartbreaking.
The Butte County Sheriff’s Office announced on Thursday that the boys’ condition had improved to "critical but stable", giving hope to the rural community located 60 miles north of Sacramento. The community has faced a lot of tragedy in recent years, and residents are coming together to organize fundraisers, vigils, and raise money to support the victims and their families, as they have done in the past in this agricultural region.
In the past, the people living in this area experienced the devastating Camp fire, which resulted in the loss of 85 lives and the complete destruction of the town of Paradise located approximately 20 miles away. Just a year before this fire, residents in Oroville had to quickly evacuate their homes due to the fear of the nearby Oroville Dam potentially bursting.
During the shooting incident on Wednesday, it is believed by authorities that the shooter, named Glenn Litton, 56, specifically chose to target the parochial school due to its connection to the Seventh-day Adventists, a Protestant Christian group. The shooter later took his own life.
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