15-Year-Old Student Opened Fire In U.S. School, Killing 3 And Injuring 8 (Pics)

15-year-old opened fire at his Michigan high school on Tuesday, killing three students, including a 16-year-old boy who died in a deputy’s patrol car on the way to a hospital, authorities said.

Eight other people were wounded, some critically.

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Swarms of police officers swooped in and arrested the suspected gunman within five minutes.

Parents walk away with their kids from the parking lot, where many students gathered following a deadly shooting.

Horrific video shows students cowering from a 15-year-old gunman who identified himself as a sheriff’s deputy and shot dead three students at the Michigan high school, wounding eight others including a teacher.

Chilling footage captured by a student shows classmates huddled beneath desks inside a barricaded classroom as a killer gunman who’d already begun his rampage roams the halls, trying to convince would-be victims that it was safe to emerge from hiding.

‘Sheriff’s office,’ the boy said. ‘You can come out.’

Students exchanged glances as one whispered ‘he said it’s safe to come out.’

But one skeptical classmate declined to open the door, saying: ‘We’re not willing to take that risk right now.’

A police road block restricts access to Oxford High School following the shooting.

Eight people were injured in the shooting, and two were undergoing surgery.

Tate Myre, 16, Hana St Juliana, 14, and 17-year-old Madisyn Baldwin were shot dead on Tuesday.

Oxford High students stand holding candles during a vigil at Lake Pointe Community Church after Tuesday’s shooting.