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High School Shooting Suspect Dies In Santa Clarita, Calif., Sheriff's Dept. Says

One of two students killed at Saugus High was a nephew of a sheriff's employee. Three off-duty officers were the first to respond to the 911 call — they were dropping their kids off at the school.
A woman and girl drop off flowers at a makeshift memorial in Central Park near Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, Calif., where a student shot five fellow teenagers Thursday.

Updated at 8:25 p.m. ET

The shooting suspect in Santa Clarita, Calif., has died one day after the attack at Saugus High School that killed two students. Authorities identified him as Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow, 16, a junior at the school. Officials say he died at a hospital where he was being treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

One of the two students who died in Thursday's shooting at Saugus High was the nephew of an employee of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, underscoring the shooting's devastating impact on the nearby community.

"The 14-year old-boy is the nephew of one of our security in Los Angeles.

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