One deceased in a shooting at an Iowa high school, whose perpetrator was 17 years old and has died

The US Police announced this Thursday that one person has died and five others have been injured in the shooting at an Iowa high school, whose perpetrator was a student at that same center, who was 17 years old and died.

Mitch Mortvedt, of the Iowa Criminal Investigation division, indicated in a press conference that the attacker, identified as Dylan Butler, was armed with a rifle and a small-caliber pistol.

“All evidence suggests he acted alone.“, Mortvedt noted, specifying that the deceased was a student at that institute and that among the injured there are five other students and a worker at that center.

The police received the first calls alerting about the shooting at 7:37 a.m. local time (1:47 p.m. GMT), as reported in a previous press conference by Adam Infante, the sheriff of Dallas County, which includes the town of Perry, where the incident occurred.

The police arrived at the scene minutes later. “They located several individuals with gunshot wounds. Officers immediately attempted to find the source of the threat and quickly found what appeared to be the shooter with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”Mortvedt said.

In the subsequent search of the premises, the agents discovered a “homemade explosive”, which was neutralized.

The police are still investigating the reasons for what happened, which took place before classes began, so there were very few students and teachers in the area.

The shooting took place just two weeks before the Republican Party begins its primary process in Iowa to choose its candidate for the November elections, in which former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) is the favorite.