2 Students Are Shot in Montclair; Girl Wounded Near Banning School
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MONTCLAIR — Police searched Wednesday for suspects in shootings that left two teen-age boys wounded at a school in Montclair and a teen-age girl wounded outside a school in Banning. Two reputed gang members also were wounded in the Banning incident.
Stunned Montclair High School students watched the lunch-hour shooting Tuesday. Police say the gunman was a former student.
Lt. Terry Gibson said detectives know the identity of the teen-age gunman, but refused to release his name. The alleged gunman walked onto campus before the shooting and fled on foot with a handgun, Gibson said.
The victims, a 16-year-old and 17-year-old, were taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center by helicopter. The boys’ names were not released.
In Banning in Riverside County, Kaoyengnen Yang, a 14-year-old high school student, was shot in the back and arm as she walked home. She was taken by helicopter to a trauma center.
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