六名青少年因谋杀指控而被逮捕飞车射击警方周二表示,周一在爱荷华州得梅因的一所高中外,一名15岁的男孩死亡,两名女学生受重伤。
得梅因警察局周二在一份声明中表示,被致命枪击的青少年被认为是预定目标。
警方说,大多数嫌疑人在枪击发生后一小时内被捕,所有人都在几个小时内被拘留。
“虽然这一事件发生在学校外,但它可能发生在我们的任何一个社区。学校是嫌疑人发现他们目标的地方,”警方在声明中说。
周二下午,警方确认被击毙的少年是来自得梅因的何塞·戴维·洛佩斯。
警方称,两名受伤的少女周二仍留在医院,伤势危及生命。他们的名字没有公布。
当局说,除了一级谋杀罪,嫌疑人还被控两项谋杀未遂罪。嫌疑人的姓名没有立即公布,也不清楚他们是否都会被作为成年人起诉。
警方说,一夜之间,凶杀案侦探执行了多项住宅和车辆搜查令,并收回了多支枪支。
得梅因警察局
在得梅因警察局发布的一张照片中,警察在一起致命的爆炸现场...
周一下午,枪击发生在东部高中外。警方说,两名受伤的女孩都是该校的学生,而被杀的男孩不是。
警方声明称,“多名枪手从多辆车上开枪”。
开枪的动机仍在调查中。
据美国广播公司下属电视台报道,得梅因公立学校官员表示,其中两名嫌疑人就读于得梅因的另一所高中得梅因的WOI。
“很不幸,这里发生了什么...得梅因警察局长达纳·温特周一说:“这是我们社区的又一场无谓的悲剧,人们用武器来解决他们的分歧。”。
周一下午,这所高中立即被封锁,但得梅因公立学区在推特上发布消息称,在警方和学区解除警报后,学生们被准时解散。
6 teens charged with murder in drive-by shooting outside Iowa high school
Six teenagers have been arrested on murder charges stemming from adrive-by shootingMonday outside a Des Moines, Iowa, high school that left a 15-year-old boy dead and critically injured two female students, police said on Tuesday.
The teenager who was fatally shot is believed to have been the intended target, the Des Moines Police Department said in a statement Tuesday.
Most of the suspects were arrested within an hour of the shooting and all were in custody in several hours, police said.
"While this incident occurred outside of a school, it could have occurred in any one of our neighborhoods. The school is where the suspects found their target," police said in the statement.
On Tuesday afternoon, police identified the teenager who was fatally shot as Jose David Lopez of Des Moines.
The two wounded teenage girls remained in a hospital Tuesday with life-threatening injuries, police said. Their names were not released.
In addition to first-degree murder, the suspects were charged with two counts each of attempted murder, authorities said. The names of the suspects were not immediately released and it is not clear if they will all be prosecuted as adults.
Overnight, homicide detectives executed multiple residential and vehicle search warrants, and recovered multiple firearms, police said.
The shooting unfolded Monday afternoon outside East High School. The two injured girls were both students at the school, while the slain boy was not, police said.
"Gunshots were fired by multiple shooters, from multiple vehicles," according to the police statement.
The motive for the shooting remains under investigation.
Des Moines Public Schools officials said two of the suspects are enrolled at another high school in Des Moines, according to ABC affiliate stationWOI in Des Moines.
"Unfortunately, what happened here ... is just another pointless tragedy in our community, people using firearms to settle their differences," Des Moines Police Chief Dana Wingert said Monday.
The high school was immediately on lockdown Monday afternoon, but Des Moines Public School District tweeted students were being dismissed on time after police and the school district gave an all-clear.