USA: another school shooting; 16-year-old injured in Portland, Oregon

In a fresh school shooting in America, a 16-year-old suffered a bullet injury in Portland, Oregon on 12 December 2022.

Police reached Cleveland High School around 12:30 pm after calls regarding gunshots in the area. A lockdown was imposed.

The 16-year-old student went to hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.

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"According to witnesses, two vehicles may have been involved," a police statement said. "Neither vehicle stayed at the scene of the shooting." Police asked anyone with information about the shooting to contact them.

There has been a surge in gun violence in Portland in recent years, and the homicide rate has gone 207% since 2019. Two students were wounded in a drive-by shooting in October near a different high school in Portland.

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