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Law enforcement officials in Perry, Iowa, have confirmed that the shooter who ambushed students and teachers this morning at a high school is dead; the individual responsible for injuring two students and an administrator committed suicide. According to one student, when she came out of her hiding place, she saw a female student being taken from the auditorium with a gunshot wound to her leg.
At the time of this writing, roughly 1:30 p.m. Eastern, only a handful of hours since the violence, cable news shows have relegated the story to the ticker crawling across the bottom of the screen. One network is raking a Florida health official over the coals for a COVID-19 vaccine stance, another is covering the “war in the Middle East,” and one is fleshing out conspiracy theories about a man who vanished in the mountains — nothing about “glass everywhere” and “blood on the floor” at a Des Moines suburb high school. The next press conference is scheduled for 3 p.m. local time and will likely draw more cameras, questions, and attention.
