15-year-old Michigan high school student kills three and wounds eight​

Detroit, December 1 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Michigan, a 15-year-old student opened fire at Oxford high school near Detroit, killing three students and injuring another eight.  The 3 students who were fatally shot were aged 14, 16 and 17. 

The suspect is now in custody but no motives for the rampage have been released.  It was the 651st mass shooting in the US this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. 

In Washington DC, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy blasted his Republican colleagues on the Senate floor for blocking gun control legislation.  Senator Murphy said: "At the very moment that moms and dads in Michigan were being told that their kids weren’t coming home because they were shot at school, due to a country that has accepted gun violence, due to Republican’s fealty to the gun lobby… Do not lecture us about the sanctity, the importance of life when 100 people everyday are losing their lives to guns.  When kids go to school fearful that they won’t return home because a classmate will turn a gun on them… when it is in our control whether this happens.”

The father of the shooter had bought the gun he used several days before.