{"id":1025,"date":"2013-01-10T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/pupil-shot-at-californian-school\/"},"modified":"2013-01-10T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T20:15:00","slug":"pupil-shot-at-californian-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/10\/pupil-shot-at-californian-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Pupil shot at Californian school"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TaftTaft Police chief Ed Whiting briefed concerned parents after the attack<\/span><\/div>\n

A pupil at a high school in the Californian town of Taft has been shot and wounded, police say.<\/p>\n

The suspected gunman, also a student, was taken into custody, said Ray Pruitt, spokesman for the Kern County Sheriff’s Department.<\/p>\n

The victim was taken to hospital in an air ambulance, he said.<\/p>\n

Early reports suggested that a second person had been wounded, but Mr Pruitt told CNN that this appeared not to be true.<\/p>\n

Kern County Fire Department Eric Coughran told KBAK-TV that a second person had received some sort of injury but had refused treatment.<\/p>\n

A city official said the incident at Taft Union High School, about 120 miles (190km) north of Los Angeles, occurred shortly after 09:00 local time (17:00 GMT).<\/p>\n

Mr Pruitt said the gunman had used a shotgun in the attack in the small town outside Bakersfield, in California’s central valley.<\/p>\n

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Deputies from the local sheriff”s office and officials conducted a search of the school and its grounds to make sure no-one else was involved and all other students are safe.<\/p>\n

The shooting comes four weeks after a gunman killed 26 pupils and staff at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.<\/p>\n

That incident has provoked a nationwide debate about gun laws in the US. Vice-President Joe Biden has said his task force on gun control will make its recommendations to President Barack Obama as early as Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Former pupils of Taft Union High School include the distinguished US Air Force pilot, General Gordon Graham, the American football player Russell Letlow and the television actress Jeanne Cooper.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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