SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — A 16-year-old boy who shot five fellow students — killing two — before turning the gun on himself at a Southern California high school has died.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says the 16-year-old died at about 3:30 p.m. Friday at a hospital with his mother present.
Authorities say he pulled a gun from his backpack Thursday at Saugus High School in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita, shot five students at random and then shot himself in the head. It was his 16th birthday.
The shooting, captured on security video, took 16 seconds and investigators say they still don’t have a motive.
The attack killed 15-year-old Gracie Muehlberger and 14-year-old Dominic Blackwell. Two girls remain hospitalized but are expected to be released this weekend.
The parents of the 15-year-old girl killed in a shooting say they want to find a way to memorialize their daughter.
In a statement posted Friday on a GoFundMe page, the parents said it is with “unexplainable brokenness” that they are sharing the news that their daughter, Gracie Muehlberger, died in the attack early Thursday at Saugus High School in the city of Santa Clarita.
Bryan and Cindy Muehlberger said she was “our vivacious, funny, loyal, light of our lives, Cinderella, the daughter we always dreamed to have, fiercely strong and lover of all things fashionable.”
