The title was changed to include all school shootings of 2018.
The 18th school shooting of 2018 remains an active crime scene in Parkland, Florida as some students are evacuated, others are held in lock down and the perimeter of the area is secured.
It’s being reported there are multiple casualties.
The shooter is still at large.
It has been less than a month since the last mass shooting occurred at U.S. school.
School Shooting in Kentucky Was Nation’s 11th of Year. It Was Jan. 23.
The scene in Benton, Ky., on Tuesday was the worst so far in 2018: Two 15-year-old students were killed and 18 more people were injured. But it was one of at least 11 shootings on school property recorded since Jan. 1, and roughly the 50th of the academic year.
Researchers and gun control advocates say that since 2013, they have logged school shootings at a rate of about one a week.
“We have absolutely become numb to these kinds of shootings, and I think that will continue,” said Katherine W. Schweit, a former senior F.B.I. official and the co-author of a study of 160 active shooting incidents in the United States.
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The United States is the only nation in the world that experiences this level of violence in their schools. According to Moms Demand Action, this is the 18th school shooting in the U.S. in 2018.