A high school graduation in Fairfield, California, ended in gunfire on Wednesday night, leaving an 18-year-old dead and three people injured, including an 11-year-old, police said. The shooting took place around 7:15pm in the parking lot at Fairfield High School, where continuation school Sem Yeto High was holding its ceremony, reports CBS News. Officials said the attack occurred after the event concluded. “I looked over the fence and people were just screaming and running through the parking lot,” a resident who lives next to the school tells KCRA. “It was horrific.”
The three wounded—the 11-year-old and two adults, ages 20 and 25—were taken to local hospitals, per CBS; their conditions weren’t immediately released. No suspect description has been made public, though authorities said a search is underway. The Solano County Sheriff’s Office is helping Fairfield police with the probe, and classes in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District are expected to continue as scheduled. Police are asking anyone with information to come forward. “It’s a very scary incident when something like this does happen, especially during the end of a school event,” a police rep tells the Los Angeles Times.
