Horrifying moment a former Mexican drug lord, Guzman's son, 15, pulls out his gun in the middle of an American school in Mexico, shoots a teacher and two students and then kills himself.
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Chilling security video captured a school shooting in Mexico on Wednesday
The 15-year-old shooter is seen gunning down a teacher and three students
He then turned the gun on himself after reloading in front of horrified classmates
Officials say gunman is dead while a teacher and two other students were seriously wounded
He appears to be son of former DRUG LORD El Chapo Guzman
A chilling video posted to social media captures a 15-year-old student, son of former Mexican drug-lord Guzman opening fire with a handgun at a private school in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Wednesday, wounding a teacher and three other students before killing himself.
The teacher and and two other students at the bilingual American School of the Northeast appeared to take bullets in the head from the .22 caliber pistol.
The assailant, who was being treated for depression, then killed himself.
Another student suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the arm.
The video, apparently from the school's surveillance camera, shows a female teacher collecting papers from students.
The youngsters are seated at their desks when the boy opens fire with a pistol from a sitting position, hitting a boy in front of him, who immediately slumps to the ground.
The crowded classroom was left with a jumble of overturned chairs, blood and fallen students.
Nuevo Leon state Gov. Jaime Rodriguez said the shooter died at a hospital and that the other three victims with head wounds were 'fighting between life and death.' The boy wounded in the arm was out of danger.
State security spokesman Aldo Fasci said the student shot the 24-year-old teacher, a 14-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy in the head, and a 15-year-old classmate in the arm.
Oscar Aboytes, spokesman for emergency services in Nuevo Leon, said all of the wounded were rushed to hospital.
The website of the American School of the Northeast says it offers bilingual education for students from preschool through ninth grade.
After running back to his desk, apparently to retrieve ammunition, the boy again raised the gun to his head, this time fatally shooting himself
Fasci told local television that the boy shooter 'had depression and was being treated.'
'The classes were going perfectly well, the student stands up from his desk and pulls out a gun,' Fasci said. 'We have no motive yet.'
He noted that photographs of the shooting had been posted to social media and said the person responsible would be punished.
He also appealed to the news media to avoid using the images, which show minors.
The spokesman attributed the shooting to 'the situation that is happening everywhere. The children have access to the internet. This has happened in other countries.'
Fasci said the boy brought the gun from home. It was unclear how he got the .22 caliber pistol into the school. Mexico had once had a program to checked book bags at school entrances, but in many places it has fallen into disuse.
There was a reason why book bags were checked. I think we are going to have to start doing it again,' Fasci said.
Mexico had been largely spared the phenomenon of school shootings that has hit the United States, where there were at least six fatal school shootings in 2016 alone.
In one of the few previous Mexican incidents, a 13-year-old student shot a 12-year-old classmate in the head at a Mexico City middle school in 2004, seriously wounding her.
In 2014, a 15-year-old was arrested for fatally shooting a 13-year-old classmate in their Atizapan school, according to La Policiaca.
At the height of Mexico's drug war between 2008 and 2011, schools in northern Mexico were more concerned about the possibility that stray bullets from drug gang gun battles outside schools might enter classrooms.
Some schools conducted 'duck and cover' drills to combat that possibility.
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