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 While still in Texas with baby Colt laying sweetly on my bed at 8:30am, I had a strange text from a friend come through on my phone, " Is your son OK? There is an active shooter at the Perry school, I wasn't sure where your kids went to school?" I immediately googled to find out what was going on.

***** (Internet info.)  A 17-year-old student at Perry High School in Iowa fatally shot a sixth grader and wounded four other students and a school administrator Thursday before apparently killing himself, officials said. Police responded to an active shooter around 7:37 a.m. at the high school in Perry, a city of around 7,800 around 30 miles northwest of Des Moines, police said. The shooter was armed with a pump-action shotgun and a small-caliber handgun, police said. The identity of the student who was killed has not been released. Everyone else who was injured is expected to survive, officials said. A total of seven other individuals received wounds or injuries of varying degree during the shooting event, an increase of two from prior reports. Three of the victims are school staff members and four are students.  Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger has been identified as having suffered multiple gunshot wounds and remains in critical condition.  The investigation thus far confirms Principal Marburger acted selflessly and placed himself in harm’s way in an apparent effort to protect his students.  At this time, Principal Marburger and two students remain hospitalized.  The remaining have been treated and released Gov. Kim Reynolds called the shooting a “senseless tragedy” that has shaken Perry and the entire state, and she said her prayers were with the community. Authorities have not released a motive, and an investigation was ongoing. Police also found an "improvised explosive device," which the state fire marshal and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rendered safe, he said. The shooter was identified as Dylan Butler. The evidence indicates he acted alone, Mortvedt said. "Butler also made a number of social media posts in and around the time of the shooting," he said. The shooting happened before school had started and not many students were on campus, but a breakfast program was taking place, he said.

It gave me eerie chills and a sense of pure evil. There are a lot of broken people with mental issues that have very evil intentions and it is terrifying. We continue to see these youth acting out because they are hurting and broken and needed help that they never got. It makes me sad and I will never understand whey they want to act out and intentionally hurt or kill another. These shootings are horrific and so difficult on all the community. These kids need Jesus, a hope for a future, loved, and some solid foundations. We live in a world of lies, corruption, evil, hatred, confusion, and just plain brokenness. It is all part of the sin curse and it should not be s surprise to us. Tonight, I hugged the boys a little longer and a little harder and gave them a kiss on the head

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