Shooting at a Northern California elementary school and suspect is dead, sheriff's office says

OROVILLE, Calif. -- A suspected gunman is dormant and 2 students were taken to the infirmary aft a shooting Wednesday astatine a Northern California simple school, according to authorities.

Deputies were "on country of an progressive incidental involving a shooting" astatine Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists successful Palermo, the Butte County Sheriff's Office said connected the societal level X.

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said erstwhile deputies arrived astatine the schoolhouse they recovered a antheral believed to beryllium the shooter with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. That antheral is dead.

The sheriff's bureau says deputies besides recovered 2 students with gunshot wounds who were taken to the infirmary but their information is chartless astatine this time.

Authorities accidental students are being transported to Oroville Church of the Nazarene wherever parents tin reunite with their children.

A Google Earth presumption of the Feather River Adventist School successful Oroville, Calif.

Google Earth

According to the schoolhouse website, Feather River Adventist School has 33 students enrolled. The schoolhouse is located astir 10 miles southbound of Oroville.

Palermo - location to astir 5,500 radical - is astir 65 miles (104 km) northbound of Sacramento.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.