Turkish School Shooting Claims Nine Lives
In a tragic incident on Wednesday, a 14-year-old student opened fire at a middle school in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, resulting in the deaths of nine individuals, including eight students and one teacher, and injuring 13 others. The Interior Minister stated that this was a personal attack by a student, not an act of terror, and the shooter, an eighth-grade student, reportedly used weapons believed to belong to his former police officer father. The assailant died by suicide following the attack, and the shooter’s father has been detained. This event follows another school shooting in southeastern Turkey just the day prior.
John Q. Hosedrinker