Horrifying video of Omaha school shooting aftermath shows student lying on ground as classmates scream
Shocking footage captured the aftermath of a shooting at a Nebraska high school on Tuesday, which left one student critically injured with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Students and teachers screamed for help as they hid around the gunned-down teen, who authorities said was 15 years old but did not identify him by name.
The shooting at Northwest High School in Omaha prompted a search that lasted about an hour until another student, whose identity has not yet been released, was arrested.
Police said it was an isolated incident between two students. It was the third mass shooting at a U.S. school in a week.
Shocking footage captured the aftermath of a shooting at Northwest High School in Omaha, Nebraska on Tuesday that left one student seriously injured
Police announced that they had arrested a suspect about an hour after the school was locked down
Authorities assured residents that there was no longer a “threat to the community” and said they considered the shooting an isolated incident between two students
The Nebraska high school was placed on lockdown, as were nearby Marian High School and Roncalli Catholic High School, as police quickly arrived on the scene.
The shooter reportedly fled through a side door but was arrested several blocks away, about an hour after an active shooter alert was issued.
After Omaha police announced the suspect had been arrested, they said there was no longer a “threat to the community” and set up a meeting point for parents at the school’s football stadium.
Congressman Don Bacon went to X after the arrest and said he was “saddened” by the shooting and was praying “for the student’s recovery.”
“Thanks to the emergency services who quickly responded to help the victim and arrest the suspect,” Bacon said.
‘It is too early to say at this point what measures should be taken, as we do not know how the suspect obtained the weapon, where this happened, etc.’
The incident is the third school shooting in the US in less than a week, followed by a massacre at Apalachee High School in Georgia, in which 14-year-old student Colt Gray opened fire on 13 people, killing four.