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Police Confirm Two Girls Dead In Arizona School Shooting

Two 15-year-old female high school students have been shot dead at a school in Glendale, Arizona on Friday. Police have put the Independence High School campus on lockdown while they investigate the school shooting. Glendale Police spokeperson Tracey Breeden said each of the two sophomoores sustained a single gunshot wound and were found dead next to eachother at the scene. Police have reassured parents that it is not an ‘active shooter scene’, and say the two victims were found in an isolated area of campus near the administration building leading some to speculate that this could have been part of a suicide pact. “This is not an active-shooter situation, and we realized that once we got on scene,” Breeden said. Parents are being taking in buses to the school from a staging area near 75th and Glendale avenues to be reunited with their kids. Two 15-year-old female students killed in shooting at Glendale, Arizona, high school, police say. https://t.co/Z55Np3gUvA — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) February 12, 2016 Azcentral.com reports: Some parents expressed frustration at the slow process. Police said parents could authorize their children to leave school on foot, bicycle or with friends, rather than riding on the bus, to expedite evacuation. Anxiety and worry were running [...]