Student, 18, and his father killed in shooting after school graduation ceremony in Virginia

Flowers are placed in front of the Altria Theatre which was the site of a mass shooting after a graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia (Steve Helber/AP/PA)

An 18-year-old student who had just received his diploma at his high school graduation and his father were killed when a gunman opened fire as hundreds of people gathered in a park after the graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia.

Five other people were wounded on Tuesday in the shooting, which sent hundreds fleeing in panic outside the state capital’s city-owned Altria Theatre after the graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School.