![]() ![]() ![]() The president said as a parent, it "terrifies" him. is the only developed country in the world where such violence is tolerated. On Tuesday President Barack Obama said the United States needs to "do some soul searching."ĭuring a question-and-answer discussion about student loan debt on the social media site Tumblr Obama said that mass shootings are becoming the norm. On Sunday, a couple with possible links to anti-government militia shot dead two police officers execution-style in a Las Vegas pizza restaurant, before killing another civilian nearby and then themselves. On June 5, a gunman killed one person and injured two others on a college campus in Seattle, in what the local mayor denounced as America's "epidemic of gun violence." On May 23, a college student, who had mental problems and was the son of a Hollywood director, went on a gun rampage at a college campus in Santa Barbara, north of Los Angeles, killing six people and then himself. The shooting is the latest in a spate of such incidents over the past few weeks in the western United States, AFP reported. Students were evacuated from the school, hands on their heads, and reunited with their parents in a nearby supermarket parking lot, the AP reported.Ībout 60 law enforcement officers and 19 medical personnel were on the scene at the school, according to local KOIN television. It is named for a now-defunct aluminum plant that operated near the school. Reynolds High, with 2,800 students, is the second largest high school in Oregon, drawing students from five surrounding cities, according to The Oregonian. Steve Alexander, a spokesman for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, said police believe there was just one shooter. Nikki Vance, the mother of a student at the school, said Rispler has taught at the school since at least 1999, The Oregonian reported. The Oregonian reported that teacher Todd Rispler was also injured in the shooting. Multnomah County Sheriff's deputies also were involved, police said.Ībout an hour later the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said the situation was under control. Parents were reunited with their children in a nearby supermarket parking lot in Troutdale, Oregon, June 10, 2014.Ī local law enforcement official said that 30 to 40 Troutdale officers responded to the scene. Lozowski allegedly only admitted to extorting three victims.A gunman and a student are dead after an Oregon school shooting Tuesday morning. Probable cause documents also allege the teen amitted to extorting some of his victims into sending new explicit content by threatening to send their pictures and videos to people they knew.Īuthorities said Lozowski’s victims told him they were minors: one girl told him she was 11 and another told him she was 12.Īt least two victims told Lozowski they were going to commit suicide if he continued extorting them but he didn’t seem to care, according to court documents. Lozowski admitted to using Instagram to exploit the children by getting them to send him sexually explicit pictures and videos of themselves, according to court documents obtained by KOIN 6 News. The next day he was charged with child sex exploitation and receiving child pornography. Federal agents searched his home and arrested the 19-year-old. (KOIN) - The FBI arrested a Troutdale teen accused of sexually exploiting about 100 children through Instagram.Īnthony Lozowski was arrested Friday, one day after the FBI began its investigation after getting a tip. ![]()
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