Police shoot gun schoolboy in US

Police shot and critically wounded a 17-year-old boy who brought a gun to school and fired a bullet into a wall.

The teenager was in hospital with life-threatening wounds, police said in Spokane, Washington. No one else was hurt.

Police said they could find no motive for the incident, which took place in a third-floor science classroom at Lewis and Clark High School.

“He was angry at everything. He was making threats about everything,” said Police Chief Roger Bragdon.

Police negotiated with the boy for about an hour and a half, then “at some point he just decided he was not going to talk anymore and got aggressive,” Bragdon said. The boy pulled out the gun and officers shot him, the chief said.

Earlier, about 2,000 students and staff were evacuated from the school after the boy entered the classroom and fired a shot from the 9mm semiautomatic into a wall, Bragdon said.

The boy ordered the teacher and at least three students to leave and sprayed the room full of retardant from fire.