CHICAGO – A high school student who shot himself after taking his teacher and classmates hostage died on Tuesday of his wounds at a Wisconsin hospital, authorities said.
Samuel Hengel, 15, held 24 students and a teacher for nearly five hours at a high school in Marinette, Wisconsin on Monday evening before shooting himself as police were rushing into the classroom.
All the students and teacher were freed unharmed.
Hengel was transferred from a local medical centre to a hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin where he died on Tuesday morning, the Marinette County Emergency Management agency said.
The boy was armed with two handguns, and police found a duffel bag with ammunition.
Police were investigating but Hengel’s motives were not immediately known. – Nampa-AFP
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