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Estranged hubby kills wife, student, then self in murder-suicide incident
A special education teacher and one of her students were fatally shot by her 53-year-old Riverside resident estranged husband Cedric Anderson who later killed himself in an apparent murder-suicide at a San Bernardino, California, elementary school Monday.
According to San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan at a press conference Monday afternoon the attacker opened fire with a high-caliber revolver on his wife, 53-year-old Karen Elaine Smith killing her and another student in the process before he shot himself.
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A second student was badly wounded by the gunman, who authorities said had a criminal history that included weapons charges and domestic violence that predated his brief marriage to the slain teacher.
Police said the two students, both boys, were believed to have been inadvertently caught in the gunfire as bystanders to Monday’s shooting, which took place about 8 miles (13 km) from where a radicalised Muslim couple killed 14 people in a December 2015 shooting rampage.
Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said the shooting at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, about 65 miles east of Los Angeles, was an apparent murder-suicide. It was the latest in dozens of cases of gun violence at U.S. school campuses.
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Animashaun Ayodeji
April 11, 2017 at 12:58 pm
The man must be under some kind of spell or people from his village controlled his brain towards the wrong direction.
Anita Kingsley
April 11, 2017 at 1:34 pm
You’re a typical Yoruba man, who are his village people that directed his brain towards the wrong direction? This happened in U.S, not Nigeria. Na Nigeria witches they follow people, not US
Joy Madu
April 12, 2017 at 4:45 am
Abeg ask am if na the one way dey there village because the U.S way me i know no get witch but self defence gun
JOHNSON PETER
April 11, 2017 at 1:01 pm
People don’t know that the US is the home of vicious happenings and there is no day in the US people don’t die especially of guns as the country permits even small chap to use gun in the name of self defence, that’s why Donald Trump wants to stop all those obnoxious laws.
Agbor Chris
April 11, 2017 at 1:22 pm
This is exactly why many people die unnecessarily, gangstarism on the increase in the country. Donald Trump who’s also trying to eradicate some of these laws, is he not a don himself?
yanju omotodun
April 11, 2017 at 3:20 pm
Sincerely, I wonder why GOD loves America so much in spite of all heinous activities going on there. We should be thankful in Nigeria.
Balarabe musa
April 11, 2017 at 5:28 pm
Yes. Nigeria is far better than America in terms of morals and values. And even in terms of secured life.