PORT ALLEN, La. – Gunfire broke out all over a high school football game on a heat late-summer night in Louisiana, killing a 16-year-old student and wounding a lady within the arm, government stated Saturday.
Police have made no arrests and investigators nonetheless have no idea why the violence erupted at halftime Friday in a space subsequent to the stands, Sgt. Landon Groger with the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office stated.
A scientific helicopter landed at the box at Port Allen High School and the 2 sufferers have been rushed to the medical institution, the place the teenager was once pronounced useless, Groger stated. The lady’s accidents weren’t regarded as life-threatening.
The game was once suspended as surprised spectators headed for the automobile parking space, which was once full of emergency automobiles.
“We don’t know what led up to the event and we don’t yet know if it was a targeted shooting or random,” Groger said by phone Saturday, adding, “We want to take our time and cover this from all angles.”
The West Baton Rouge School Board said crisis teams will be available to talk with and assist students when classes resume after Labor Day weekend.
“Our first priorities at this time are to assist the family of the student who died, and all our students, and to assist the West Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office in its investigation,” the board said in a statement Saturday.
Security would be increased at schools, and Superintendent Chandler Smith said the district will bolster existing programs “to teach our students that violence destroys many people’s lives.”
Port Allen, home to nearly 5,000 people, is located across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge.
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This tale has been corrected to turn that the student who died was once 16 years outdated, now not 15, and that a lady was once wounded, now not a guy.
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