Student killed in shooting near Detroit high school

DETROIT (AP) — A gunman stepped out of a car and shot four teenagers on a primary-school lawn near their Detroit high school shortly after class let out Thursday, killing one of them, police said.

No arrests had been made, and a motive had not been determined in the shootings near Henry Ford High School, Deputy Police Chief James Tate said.

Christopher Walker, 16, was pronounced dead at Providence Hospital, a spokesman said. He was an 11th-grader at Henry Ford, Detroit Public Schools spokesman Steve Wasko told the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News.

A 15-year-old female student was being treated at Providence for a gunshot wound, Wasko said. A 16-year-old male 10th-grader and another 16-year-old boy no longer enrolled at Henry Ford were being treated at another hospital, Wasko said.

All three were in serious condition, said Wasko, who did not return calls from The Associated Press on Thursday night.

Jamile Barber, 31, said he was sitting in his house across the street from the high school when he heard a noise about 3:15 p.m.

“I thought something was smacking up against the house — pop, pop, pop, pop, pop,” Barber said. “Then I heard girls screaming and I saw 100, 200 kids running back toward the school. From there it was just chaos, people screaming and scrambling around.”

Barber said he saw “two bodies, stiff and not moving” on the lawn outside the Michigan Technical Academy campus for prekindergarten through second grade, next to the high school.

“I saw people running down there, trying to give aid,” he said. “The police and ambulances got there pretty fast.”