The student apparently acted alone and obtained the handgun from his parent's home according to a federal law enforcement source. A teacher was shot dead while attempting to help students find cover. Two students were wounded within only a few terrifying minutes.
Authorities are still pieceing together details of the still chaotic scene hours after the event. Students said they realized the sounds were gunshots coming from somewhere within the school just moments before the morning bell sounded. Only moments after it began it was over. Sparks Deputy Chief Tom Miller said Monday evening at a news conference, the shooter shot and killed himself with a semiautomatic gun. They still don't know the motives for this most recent school shooting. "It's too early to say whether he was targeting specific people or just going on an indiscriminate shooting spree," said Reno Police Department deputy chief, Tom Robinson.
Math teacher, Mike Landsberry, was killed during the shooting. He was described as popular among both the students and staff. Landsberry's brother Reggie stated also that Mike had served in the Marines and served several tours in Afghanistan as a member of the Nevada Air National Guard. "He was the kind of person that if someone needed help he would be there," Reggie Landsberry said. "He loved teaching. He loved the kids. He loved coaching them. ... He was just a good all-around individual."
One student, Amaya Newton, described the student who killed the teacher and wounded two other students. "He was really a nice kid, he would make you smile when you were having bad day." said Newton.
Newton said she thought the two students who were wounded were friends of the shooter. Amaya's mother, Tabatha, said they thought the shooter had been bullied in the past.
Last week a student at a high school in Austin, Texas, killed himself in front of other students. In August, a student at a high school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, shot and wounded another student in the neck.
Another shooting occurred at an Atlanta middle school in January, the same month a California high school student wounded two people, one seriously.
The Nevada shooting also comes almost a year after a gunman killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, igniting nationwide debate over gun violence and school safety.
The mother of a student killed in December's shooting in Newtown said Monday's shooting was reminder of the need to find solutions to keep students safe.
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