11-year-old shooter opens fire at Mexico school, killing teacher and wounding classmates:

A sixth-grade student shot and killed a teacher and wounded several classmates before killing himself inside an elementary school Friday morning in northern Mexico, authorities said.

The 11-year-old boy apparently told another student, “Today is the day," then asked to go to the bathroom, where he stayed for about 15 minutes before getting out and firing two guns, a preliminary investigation found.

The shooting happened in Torreón, a large city in the state of Coahuila.

Authorities said five students and a gym teacher were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, but their condition was not immediately known.

Coahuila Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme said the shooter lived with his grandparents and that his mother died several years ago. The boy did not appear to have any behavioral problems, the governor said.

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The city’s mayor, Jorge Zermeño, told reporters outside the school the investigation is underway, but he said it appears the shooter likely had “a problematic family.”

“It’s a very serious incident,” he said. “It’s very sad, very lamentable that an elementary school child would come armed to the school and do something like this.”

Despite the country’s high rates of violent crime, school shootings are rare in Mexico. One of the most recent ones happened in 2017. when a 15-year-old student shot a teacher and several classmates at a private school in Monterrey. The teacher did not survive her injuries and the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Source: nydailynews