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Iowa police say Grade 6 student killed, 17-year-old suspect dead in school shooting

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A 17-year-old opened fire at a small-town Iowa high school on the first day of school after the winter break, killing a Grade 6 student and wounding five others as students barricaded in offices and fled in panic.

At a press conference Thursday afternoon, Mitch Mortvedt, an assistant director with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, said an active shooter was reported at 7:37 a.m. and officers arrived minutes later to find students and faculty either sheltering in place or fleeing the school. 

Mortvedt said officers entered the school to find multiple people with gunshot wounds and then “quickly found what appeared to be

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