Suspected gunman, 16, in California high school shooting dies in hospital

Sheriffs escort students and faculty out of Saugus High School after shooting at the school, in Santa Clarita, California. [Reuters]

A teenage boy who killed two classmates and wounded three others at a southern California high school on his birthday before shooting himself in the head died on Friday of his wounds in hospital, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office said. 

“Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow, 16, a Junior at Saugus High School, was being treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head when he succumbed to his injuries. His mother was present at the time of his passing,” the sheriff’s office said in a written statement.