A TEENAGER opened fire at a high school in the US state of Nebraska, fatally wounding the assistant principal and forcing panicked students to take cover.
The gunman, who had attended the Omaha school for no more than two months, also wounded the principal before fleeing from the scene and fatally shooting himself in his car.
Authorities declined to speculate about why the suspect, identified as 17-year-old Robert Butler Jr, targeted the administrators.
Vice Principal Vicki Kaspar, 58, died at a hospital hours after the shooting, police said.
Principal Curtis Case, 45, was listed in stable condition.
Butler had transferred in November from a high school in Lincoln, southwest of Omaha.
In a rambling Facebook post filled with expletives, Butler warned on Wednesday that people would hear about the “evil” things he did and said the school drove him to violence.
He wrote that the Omaha school was worse than his previous one, and that the new city had changed him.
He apologised and said he wanted people to remember him for who he was before affecting “the lives of the families I ruined”. The post ended with “goodbye.”
Police Chief Alex Hayes provided no details on the weapon Butler used or how he obtained it.
Butler’s father is a detective for the Omaha Police Department. Investigators were interviewing the seven-year veteran on Wednesday to learn more about what may have led to the shooting.
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