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Associated Press
Published December 4, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Updated December 4, 2024 at 6:26 p.m
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Two students were injured in a shooting Wednesday at a Northern California elementary school, and the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police officials said.
Megan McMahon, a spokeswoman for the Butte County Sheriff’s Office, said the injured students were taken to hospitals in unknown condition after the shooting at the small religious school, and the shooter’s motives were not known.
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Feather River Seventh-day Adventist School is a private K-8 school in Palermo – home to about 5,500 people and located about 65 miles (104 km) north of Sacramento.
A Butte County Fire Department representative did not immediately have any information about the shooting.
The students were taken to the Church of the Nazarene in Oroville to be reunited with their families, the sheriff’s office said.
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