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Students are led out of Aztec High School after a shooting Thursday. Associated Press/Photo by Jon Austria/The Daily Times

Three dead in New Mexico school shooting

Two students died Thursday after a shooting at a rural New Mexico high school. The suspected gunman also died, according to police in Aztec, N.M. Investigators have not released any information about the victims or a possible motive for the attack. No one else suffered injuries in the incident at Aztec High School. Officials put other area schools on lockdown temporarily but quickly determined they had contained the threat. Aztec schools remained closed for the day. The city, home to about 6,500 people, sits in the middle of northwestern New Mexico’s oil and gas fields, near the Navajo Nation.


Leigh Jones

Leigh is features editor for WORLD. She is a World Journalism Institute graduate who spent six years as a newspaper reporter in Texas before joining WORLD News Group. Leigh also co-wrote Infinite Monster: Courage, Hope, and Resurrection in the Face of One of America's Largest Hurricanes. She resides with her husband and daughter in Houston, Texas.


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