Police, based on eyewitness accounts, stopped a car and took “three potential suspects” into custody. The investigation remains ongoing.
Two people were killed and a third seriously injured on Monday in a shooting at a non-governmental organization that helps young people in Des Moines, in the central US state of Iowa, police said.
Responding to a call to immediate action, law enforcement officers who responded to Starts Right Here, an NGO that works with the public education system to help troubled or at-risk youth, found three people with gunshot wounds, two of them who were “in a very serious condition”.
“These two people, two students, are dead (…). The third person, who works for the organization, is in serious condition,” Paul Parizek, spokesman for the police in Des Moines, explained to the press.
Police were unable to specify the ages of the victims. “I don’t know” yet “whether it was adults or (…) minors,” Mr. Parizek limited himself to saying.
Based on eyewitness accounts, police stopped a car and detained “three potential suspects.”
The investigation remains ongoing, according to the same source.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, a Republican, said she was “shocked and devastated” by the attack.
The two deaths follow Saturday night’s massacre in California that left 11 dead in an attack by an Asian septuagenarian on a dance hall amid Lunar New Year celebrations.
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