Mass shooting after California high school graduation kills teen, wounds 3 | CNN

Investigators are searching for whoever killed an 18-year-old and wounded three other people shortly after a high school graduation ceremony in California’s Bay Area. The gunfire erupted Wednesday after the ceremony for Sem Yeto High School, which started at 6 p.m. The alternative school shares a campus with Fairfield High School, about 50 miles northeast of San Francisco. At about 7:15 p.m., authorities responded to a shooting in the parking lot of Fairfield High School, police said. “Three victims, ages 11, 20, and 25, sustained non-fatal gunshot injuries. A fourth victim, an 18-year-old, succumbed to their injuries,” Fairfield Police Officer Michelle Belyea said Thursday. The 11-year-old is recovering at a local hospital, police said. Police are not publicly identifying the mass shooting victims “pending next-of-kin notification and to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation,” Belyea said. CNN has asked the school district whether the 18-year-old who was killed had just graduated from Sem Yeto High School minutes earlier. The shooting is one of at least 168 mass shootings in the US this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooti

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