
A high school student in the Philippines killed a fellow student before committing suicide in a livestreamed Tuesday morning school shooting.
The suspected shooter – identified as Mohammad Mael Jalani – was reportedly carrying a rifle and a pistol when he opened fire on the campus.
The deadly incident Ateneo de Zamboanga University, a private Catholic High School in Zamboanga. The Philippines’ Interior Department Secretary Jonvic Remulla confirmed to the state-run Philippine News Agency (PNA) that the perpetrator was a 9th grade student, while the victim was a 10th grade teenager. The Associated Press (AP) identified the shooter as 9th Grade student Mohammad Mael Jalani.
Remulla detailed that at around 07:50 a.m. (local time, the perpetrator entered the high school bringing “one pistol and one rifle” and started firing indiscriminately — hitting the 10th grade at the building’s fourth floor student before going upstairs to the 5th floor and committing suicide by jumping.
Per the Secretary, the Philippine National Police (PNP) is presently conducting an investigation to establish the motives behind the shooting, the origin and ownership of the firearms used, and how they were brought inside the school campus.










