Teacher and teen killed in shooting at south St. Louis high school. Suspect is dead.

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A gunman entered a south St. Louis high school on Monday with a “long gun” and multiple high-capacity magazines, shooting a teenage girl and a health teacher to death and injuring several others before police shot and killed him, authorities said.

Police identified the suspect late Monday as Orlando Harris, 19, a graduate last year of the school, Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, at Arsenal Street and South Kingshighway near Tower Grove Park.

One survivor heard the shooter say he was “tired of everybody” in the school.

Read more on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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