First shooting of the year in an American school, with a preliminary toll of at least one dead, an 11-year-old child, in addition to the murderer, and five injured. The shooter was a 17-year-old from Perry High School, identified as Dylan Butler, who police said acted alone. The tragedy in Iowa, a small rural state in the USA.
The reasons that pushed him to do this are not yet known. Police are searching social media where the boy was apparently active. Rumor has it that Butler had posted a photo on TikTok shortly before his deployment: the published photo showed him in what appeared to be a school toilet and the photo was accompanied by the message “Now we wait”. Police found a “rudimentary” explosive device at the high school that was later defused.