A 15-year-old student shoots teacher, 3 classmates at American school in Mexico

A 15-year-old student opened fire Wednesday at
an American school in Monterrey, northern
Mexico, gravely injuring three students and a
teacher before turning the gun to himself.

The shooter died at a hospital and three of the
victims are "fighting between life and death,"
according to the latest update by Nuevo Leon
Gov. Jaime Rodriguez. They were all shot in the
head.
One boy wounded in an arm is out of danger, he
said.
The entire scene was captured by a surveillance
camera. The chilling video shows the shooter,
identified just as Federico, opening fire from his
desk first. He hits one classmate, who is seen
collapsing to the floor, and then walks around the
room shooting randomly. After a few seconds he
pauses and takes the gun, a 22 caliber pistol, to
his head.
Aldo Fasci, Nuevo Leon state security
spokesman , said the motive was still under
investigation.
Fasci said the boy brought the gun from home. It
was unclear how he got the firearm into the
school. Mexico had once had a program to
checked book bags at school entrances, but in
many places it has fallen into disuse.
"'There was a reason why book bags were
checked. I think we are going to have to start
doing it again," Fasci said.
Mexico has largely been spared the phenomenon
of school shootings that has hit the United
States. In one of the few previous incidents, a
13-year-old student shot a 12-year-old
classmate in the head at a Mexico City middle
school in 2004, seriously wounding her.
At the height of Mexico's drug war between 2008
and 2011, schools in northern Mexico had
considered a much greater threat the possibility
that stray bullets from drug gang gun battles
outside schools might enter classrooms. Some
schools conducted "duck and cover" drills to
combat that possibility.