Student, teacher killed in US classroom shooting

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Garcia noted that the elementary school does not have uniformed police officers or campus security like the district's middle and high schools.

Favzia Rizvi, General Secretary of the Islamic Society of Corona-Norco, putting her head down in prayer during a candlelight vigil at the Our Lady of Assumption Church on Monday evening, hours after three people died in a murder-suicide at North Park Elementary in San Bernardino on Monday April 10, 2017.

Police suspect 53-year-old Cedric Anderson of carrying out the shooting at North Park Elementary, which left his estranged wife, Karen Smith, 53, and an 8-year-old student in her special-needs class dead.

Burguan added that Anderson has a criminal history, which includes weapons charges, accusations of domestic violence and drug charges, though he did not go into specific detail.

"This is a time when we do stand strong and we do stand together and a time we overcome the hatred with grace and peace", said San Bernardino City Unified School District Superintendent Dale Marsden.

"Obviously, from a school board member perspective, it causes all of us to want to closely evaluate our protocols for safety and security to make sure that this sort of thing doesn't affect the families who trust us with their children", said Columbia Public Schools board member Helen Wade.

The school is about 10 miles from the Inland Regional Center, where 14 people were killed and 22 wounded in a December 2015 terror attack carried out by a husband and wife. "She knows when to ignore me".

"She knows when to ignore me", Anderson said with a laugh in a short video posted February 27. He posted several photos of his wedding to Smith early this year and their honeymoon in Sedona, Arizona. The couple had been married for a few months but had separated "for about the last month, month-and-a-half roughly".

"She thought she had a wonderful husband, but she found out he was not wonderful at all".

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The woman said she could see her daughter on the other side of the fence and said she was "crying" as she held hands with her classmates.

Arianna Mejia's mom said her daughter was told she was going on a field trip by her teacher to shield her from the horror at school. She broke up with him and he came out with a different personality. She did not elaborate.

She said her daughter pursued a teaching career after raising four children.

The policy had been proposed by Barack Obama in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, when a young man with Asperger's syndrome shot dead his mother, six teachers and 20 children before turning the gun on himself.

Jennifer Gordon, 41, a parent of a child at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, Calif., shows a card with her name, her daughter's name and the child's teacher's name as she waits to be reunited with her daughter following a deadly shooting at the school Monday, April 10, 2017. One 8-year-old boy, identified as Jonathan Martinez, died from his wounds. As of Monday evening, a 9-year-old was in stable but critical condition.

Parents gathered outside the elementary school, waiting to pick up their children and get updates on the shooting.

Sandy Detinne, whose 5-year-old grandson attends the school, was one of them.

Anderson also reloaded after firing what is believed to have been a.357-caliber revolver, the police chief said.

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