By Holly Yan, AnneClaire Stapleton and Paul P. Murphy, CNN
Another high school has turned into a scene of carnage, this time in western Kentucky.
Fourteen people were wounded, two of them fatally, after a shooter opened fire Tuesday morning at Marshall County High School, Gov. Matt Bevin said at a news conference.
Another five people sustained other injuries.
A 15-year-old male student was arrested at the scene and will be charged with murder and attempted murder, Bevin said.
(At least one person was killed after a shooter opened fire at Marshall County High School in Western Kentucky, Gov. Matt Bevin said. Seven others were taken to hospitals, county emergency management said. Courtesy of CNN and YouTube. Posted on Jan 23, 2018)
The slain victims were a boy and a girl, both 15 years old.
The girl died at the scene and the boy died at a hospital, State Police Commissioner Richard W. Sanders said.
The conditions of the injured students were not immediately known.
Sanders said the suspect, armed with a handgun, walked into the school at 8:57 a.m. ET and started shooting.
(Two students are dead and multiple others are injured following a school shooting at Marshall County High School in Kentucky. Officials confirmed that a 15-year-old student was responsible. Courtesy of NBC News and YouTube. Posted on Jan 23, 2018)
As word of the shooting spread across Benton, parents panicked about the fate of their children.
Daniel Austin, a 17-year-old special needs student, was hospitalized.
His parents called his cell phone incessantly until someone in the emergency room picked up and said Daniel had been shot.
Daniel Austin was wounded during the mass shooting at Marshall County High School.
His mother Andrea rushed to the hospital, bewildered as to why this happened.
“Teachers love him. Students love him. I don’t think anything can say one bad thing about him,” Andrea Austin said.
“And that’s not because I’m his mom. Everybody loves him.”
Austin said her son was shot in the right arm, which might need to be amputated.
She lauded the heroics of a fellow student and a teacher, who quickly scooped up Daniel after the gunfire stopped, rushed him to a car and drove him to a hospital.
2 school shootings in 2 days
The violence in Marshall County, a rural area near the western tip of Kentucky, stunned the governor. Authorities have not provided a possible motive.
“It is unbelievable that this would happen in a small, close-knit community like Marshall County,” Bevin said in a statement.
“This is a tremendous tragedy and speaks to the heartbreak present in our communities.”
It also stirred painful memories of the 1997 school shooting that killed three students in West Paducah — just 32 miles from the high school in Benton.
Tuesday’s attack came one day after another school shooting, in Texas.
(In Texas, Ellis County Sheriff Charles Edge and area Superintendent of Schools Lee Joffre spoke to reporters about a shooting at Italy High School, which is south of Dallas. A gunman shot a teenage girl, who was airlifted to a hospital. A teenage suspect was taken into custody on school grounds. Courtesy of CBS News and YouTube. Posted on Jan 22, 2018)
On Monday, a 15-year-old female student was shot in the city of Italy, officials said.
She was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Dallas.
The suspect, a 16-year-old male, was “apprehended within minutes,” city officials said.
The motive for that shooting also remains unclear.
CNN’s Devon Sayers and Justin Lear contributed to this report.
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(The Heath High School shooting occurred in West Paducah, Kentucky, on December 1, 1997. Fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on a group of praying students, killing three and injuring five more. Heath High School Shooting Memorial. Courtesy of LEX18 News and YouTube. Posted on Jan 23, 2018)
