Student wounded in shooting in front of South LA high school

A 17-year-old pupil astatine Santee High School was changeable Thursday afternoon, Sept, 2, arsenic classes of the southbound Los Angeles field were letting out, authorities said.

“It was dismissal clip and determination were kids walking location from school,” said Gil Gamez, president of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s constabulary union. “At the backmost extremity of the school, close by the shot field, a car drove by and changeable astatine a student, hitting a student.

“Our schoolhouse constabulary serviceman applied a tourniquet to him astatine 2:03 successful the afternoon,” Gamez said.

The lad was taken to a hospital; his information was unclear. Police, who weren’t definite yet if the shooting was gang-related, were searching for the shooter.

Callers had reported shots fired astatine Maple Avenue and East 22nd Street astatine 1:52 p.m., said Officer Tony Im, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman.

The school serviceman “saved the victim’s beingness by applying a tourniquet,” Perez said.

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