Shooting that killed two at US youth programme was targeted, say police

Preston Walls was on supervised release for a weapons charge and had removed his ankle monitor 16 minutes before the shooting, police said.

A law enforcement officer walks outside the Starts Right Here building, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. Police say two students were killed and a teacher was injured in a shooting at the Des Moines school on the edge of the city’s downtown. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

The killing of two students at an alternative education programme designed to help at-risk teenagers in Iowa was a targeted attack, police said, and an 18-year-old has been charged.

The teenagers killed in Monday’s shooting at the Starts Right Here programme in Des Moines were both males, aged 18 and 16, police said.