Two students have died after a gunman opened fire Thursday morning at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, Calif., according to law enforcement officials. Three other students also were shot. Authorities have not named the suspect but say he is a 16-year-old student at the school. He carried out the attack on his birthday.At a midday news conference, Capt. Kent Wegener of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Homicide Bureau said detectives reviewed surveillance video footage from the high school that showed the suspect taking a handgun from his backpack and shooting five other people before shooting himself in the head.
The suspect is currently in "grave condition," Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said. The sheriff's department says the victims who died are a 16-year-old female and a 14-year-old male, both of whom died at the hospital Thursday morning. The others who were hospitalized include two more female students, ages 14 and 15, along with a second 14-year-old male student.
