TWO boys were shot dead while sitting in a van at an elementary school parking lot in Northern California, the United States, police said. The victims, ages 11 and 14, were shot early Saturday in the west parking lot of Searles Elementary School, the Union City Police Department said. The older boy died at the scene while the younger one died on the way to a trauma center. Police said they’ll not release their names because they are minors. Investigators said they’re working to determine whether the shooting is connected to one that happened in the city four days prior and left two men injured. “Although there is no evidence to show that these two incidents are linked, investigators have not ruled out that possibility,” police said. No arrests have been made in the killings. Union City is about 32 kilometers from Oakland. So far this year, before Saturday’s incident, there had been 45 school shootings, according to a CNN tally. That’s nearly an average of one school shooting a week. Since there is no single definition for what qualifies as a school shooting, CNN’s tally counted shootings on school property, which includes but is not limited to buildings, athletic fields, parking lots, stadiums and buses.(SD-Agencies) |