Deadly High School Shooting Claims Multiple Victims

Two teenagers were shot at a high school in Glendale, Arizona on Friday, according to police.

– Police have confirmed that two teen girls were found dead at a Glendale high school on Friday morning and that they are investigating the incident as a murder-suicide.

She said authorities were not searching for any suspects and that a weapon had been found near the bodies.

The relationship between the two girls was not known at the time of the press conference, but Breeden said that there were no threats made before, during, or after the shooting. Breeden told parents awaiting word on their kids that “your children are safe”.

“You don’t know if it’s your daughter or not”.

Glendale Police responded to the school at around 8 A.M. The deceased were found in an isolated area of the campus.

“We were in front of the school and we heard two loud shots like someone was popping a bag or something”, a student at the school told her mom over the phone, CBS affiliate KPHO reported.

GLSEN issued a statement on the incident Friday evening: “GLSEN Phoenix is deeply saddened by the tragedy, and we send our sympathies to the entire Independence High School community”. Arizona Sen. John McCain said he was “monitoring [the] shooting at Independence HS”, on Twitter.

“After we communicated with parents, we mobilized our social workers in the district to provide support for our students and our faculty”, Capistran said.

Glendale was already the scene of an armed hostage situation at an elementary school in 2000, when 14-year-old Sean Wayne Botkin reportedly returned to his former elementary school and held a teacher and her class hostage.

Meanwhile, Arizona Mayor Jerry Weiers stated that the tragic incident touched him deeply, as he has close ties with Independent High School.

The Glendale Union High School District said in a statement on its website that no-one can leave or enter the campus until police ensure the school’s safety and lift a lockdown.

Minnie Kramer, mother of a 15-year-old student, said she rushed out of work when she got a text from her son right after the shooting, telling her that he was OK.