2 killed, 17 injured in Kentucky high school shooting

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last updated 23 January 2018

Two students were killed and 17 students were injured Tuesday after a student opened fire at Marshall County High School in Kentucky, The Associated Press reports. Twelve of the injuries were caused by gunfire, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports, while the other five were not gunshot wounds.

In a press conference, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) told reporters that two 15-year-old students died in the shooting, one at the scene and another in a hospital. Overall, 14 students were shot, including the two deceased.

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Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.

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