Campus police officers and students killed in US school shootings

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Campus police officers and students killed in US school shootings

Feb 2, 2022: According to a report by AFP, 2 campus police officers were shot and killed at a college in the US state of Virginia Tuesday, while one student was killed and another wounded in a shooting at a school in Minnesota the same day.

Virginia State Police said in a statement on Twitter that two agents, a Campus Law Enforcement Officer and a Campus Safety Officer, were shot dead before the suspect fled the scene at Virginia College. Multiple law enforcement agencies arrived at the Bridgewater College campus around 1:20 a.m. (1820 GMT) in response to active shooter reports, according to the same statement, which the school also posted on its website.

Meanwhile, Virginia Governor Glen Youngkin tweeted, “I have been briefed on the situation at Bridgewater College. The shooter is in custody and state and local police are on the scene.”

The slain officers were identified by the school as John Painter and J.J. Jefferson.

The suspect, 27-year-old Alexander White Campbell, was later arrested, Virginia State Police said, adding that he had a “non-lethal bullet wound.” It was not immediately clear if he was shot or wounded by police. He has already been charged with murder, police said.

Bridgewater College sent out an alert around 1:30 pm warning of an active shooter situation, local media reported. The school issued an all-clear notice on its website around 4:30 pm.

After this latest incident of a campus shooting, President Joe Biden, who has called on Congress to pass tougher gun control laws, tweeted, saying he and his wife were “praying for the families of the missing.” “Gun violence against law enforcement officers is painful, and it must end,” he said.

In a separate incident in Minnesota, in the town of Richfield just outside of Minneapolis around noon, attackers opened fire on the students on a sidewalk outside the South Education Center before speeding away in a car, according to Richfield Police Chief Jay Henthorne.

Two suspects were later arrested, while the victim’s friends identified the slain student as Jamari Rice, who some local journalists said was the son of Black Lives Meter worker Cortez Rice. The same Cortez Rice who was arrested last year and charged with trying to intimidate a judge hearing the case of former police officer Kim Potter.

Kim Potter has since been convicted on two counts of manslaughter for shooting and killing Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, last year. She says she mistakenly grabbed her handgun instead of her Taser during a routine traffic stop.

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