Important Takeaways:
- Dan Marburger, the principal at Perry High School, was injured in the 4 January that also claimed the life of a 11-year-old
- An Iowa high school principal who “gave the ultimate sacrifice” as he protected his students during a mass shooting earlier this month has succumbed to injuries he sustained during the rampage.
- Marburger’s family announced on Sunday that he had died from the serious injuries he sustained.
- Governor Kim Reynolds has ordered all flags in Iowa to be lowered to half-staff on Sunday, and remain at half-staff until sunset on the day of Marburger’s funeral.
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Important Takeaways:
- Iowa school shooter believed to have posted an ominous TikTok video before killing a 6th grader and wounding 5 others
- Moments before a 17-year-old unleashed gunfire at Iowa’s Perry High School, killing a sixth grader and wounding five other people, the student is believed to have posted a foreboding TikTok video.
- On the morning shooter Dylan Butler opened fire, a TikTok post believed to be from the shooter shows him inside a school bathroom posing with a blue duffel bag, captioned: “Now we wait.”
- Butler – who also died amid Thursday’s horror, a law enforcement official told CNN – “made a number of social media posts in and around the time of the shooting,” said Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Iowa Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Investigation. “Law enforcement are working to secure those pieces of evidence,” he added.
- New details also are emerging about whether Butler may have been bullied, though his motive might never be confirmed. He was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Mortvedt said.
- Still, investigators are trying to determine why Butler entered the school with pump-action shotgun and small-caliber handgun, Mortvedt said. Officers also discovered a rudimentary explosive device after the killer went on the deadly rampage before classes started on the first day back to school since winter break.
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Important Takeaways:
- Perry High School shooter injures two Iowa students and an administrator on first day back from winter break before turning the gun on themselves
- County Sherriff Adam Infante confirmed at a press conference at 11am that police officers arrived at the high school seven minutes after the first call was made.
- The first responders found ‘multiple gunshot victims’ inside the school, but Infante said they are still working on confirming the number of victims. He did not confirm if anyone was deceased.
- Local news outlet WHO 13 said the shooter, who may be a student, is believed dead from a self-inflicted gun wound.
- Adam Infante said that there were few people in the building at the time of the shooting, because the school day had not started yet.
- The sheriff said: ‘The community is safe. We are now working backwards, to see what happened.’
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