A shooting at a private Christian school in the northern United States has killed two people as well as a child who is suspected of carrying out the attack, authorities say.
The shooting on Monday at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, also left others wounded, with at least five people taken to local hospitals, the Madison Police Department said.
The police said that the victims were a teacher and a teenage student.
Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes identified the suspected shooter as a student at the school. A law enforcement official later told the press that the shooter was a 17-year-old female student.
Barnes told reporters that police officers who responded to the shooting did not fire their weapons and found the suspected shooter dead at the scene. He later added that the motive was unknown.
The shooting took place just after 11 am (17:00 GMT). It was initially reported that five people had been killed before Barnes gave the updated death toll.
Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrived at the scene and were assisting local police, who blocked off roads around the school.
President Joe Biden has been briefed on the incident, the White House said.
There have been 322 school shootings this year in the US, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, the second highest total of any year since 1966—topped only by last year’s total of 349 shootings.
Polling in the US has consistently found that the American public wants stricter laws on firearms, but politicians have found it difficult to push through legislation in the face of a strong pro-gun lobby.