Police in Santa Clarita, California, said they are responding to reports of a shooting at a high school that may have multiple victims.
It’s not clear how many victims were shot.
The Santa Clarita Sheriff’s Station Department and City of Santa Clarita both issued tweets about the incident.
Officials also locked down nearby elementary schools.
Rosedell and Highland elementary schools were placed on lockdown during the search for the gunman, reports said.
Facts About Crime in the United States
Violent crime in the United States has fallen sharply over the past 25 years, according to both the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) (pdf).While the overall rate of violent crime has seen a steady downward drop since its peak in the 1990s, there have been several upticks that bucked the trend. Between 2014 and 2016, the murder rate increased by more than 20 percent, to 5.4 per 100,000 residents, from 4.4, according to an Epoch Times analysis of FBI data. The last two-year period that the rate soared so quickly was between 1966 and 1968.
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