18-year-old killed, 3 wounded including child, 11, in shooting at California graduation - BERITAJA

A crowd was connected manus Wednesday evening astatine the adjacent of a Northern California precocious schoolhouse graduation ceremonial erstwhile a shooter killed 1 teen and wounded 3 different people, including an 11-year-old child, officials said.

“The arena was attended by about 1,000 group pinch hundreds of imaginable witnesses to this tragedy,” constabulary successful Fairfield, successful Solano County, said successful a connection Thursday.

Investigators are successful the process of interviewing those witnesses arsenic they portion together what happened astatine an arena filled pinch caller graduates and their families. Police said they were “working diligently to place those responsible.”

The shooting occurred successful the parking batch astatine Fairfield High School astatine 7:15 p.m., Fairfield Police Officer Michelle Belyea said astatine a Wednesday evening news conference. The Sem Yeto High School graduation was conscionable finishing up astatine the campus.

The wounded included the 11-year-old, on pinch a 20-year-old and a 25-year-old. The personification who died aft being changeable was 18, according to police. No different specifications connected the victims were released.

After the shooting, witnesses said they saw a female performing CPR connected a teen who was still wearing his graduation headdress and gown. It’s unclear whether he was the unfortunate who was fatally shot, KRON4 reported.

As of Thursday, constabulary and schoolhouse officials said location was nary denotation “of an ongoing threat towards schools and the community,” the Bay Area news position reported.

With Fairfield High’s graduation group to beryllium held Friday, organization members started a petition calling for it to beryllium moved to a caller location. Petitioners said it would beryllium “unsettling to students and families” to clasp it astatine the schoolhouse stadium. The effort was successful, and the Friday ceremonial is group to beryllium held astatine Armijo High School, besides successful Fairfield, KRON4 reported.

Police asked that anyone pinch accusation related to Wednesday’s incident interaction the Fairfield constabulary investigations extremity statement astatine (707) 428-7345 aliases email juneincidenttips@fairfield.ca.gov.