Student shoots classmate in Memphis school cafeteria: official
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MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AFP) — A student was shot by a classmate in the cafeteria of a Memphis, Tennessee high school in the latest of a slew of high-profile shootings across the country, officials said Monday.
"A student was shot by a classmate in the cafeteria during a physical education class that was being held in that area," said Rita Cooper, spokeswoman for Memphis City Schools.
"The suspect, who is also a student at Mitchell High, is in police custody," she added.
Police spokeswoman Monique Martin told CNN that the student was shot at least twice and was in critical condition.
"We don't have a motive at this time," she said.
Cooper did not comment on the student's condition but said he had been taken to hospital and "our thoughts and prayers remain with this student and his family."
The shooting came following a bloody week in the United States.
On Friday, a female student shot dead two other women before turning the gun on herself at a college in the southern state of Louisiana Friday
On Thursday, a gunman opened fire at an Ohio school, wounding his estranged wife in front of her students before fleeing and later killing himself after a three-hour standoff.
He had earlier stabbed another woman believed to be one of his wife's friends prior to going to the school.
Also on Thursday, a suburban city council meeting in the Midwestern state of Missouri became a scene of carnage when an enraged gunman burst in and shot seven people, five of them fatally.
He managed to kill two police officers and three city employees before police shot him dead, St Louis County Police spokeswoman Tracy Panus told AFP.
The man, who had a history of interrupting council meetings with complaints about persecution by officials, rushed into the council chambers as the meeting was getting under way, witnesses said.
In California on Thursday, a man suspected of murdering three family members shot dead a Los Angeles SWAT team police officer and wounded another during a bloody gunbattle.
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