US student shot and killed at high school

Police dispatched to Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem found one student who had been shot. 

The student was transported to a local hospital, where he "succumbed to his injuries," police department chief Catrina Thompson said during a press conference.

The shooting suspect, believed to be another student at the school, fled the scene. He was later apprehended "without incident," Winston-Salem police said on Twitter.

After a year of largely remote learning due to the pandemic, US students returning to in-person school this month face a renewed risk of mass shootings, which have plagued the American education system for years. 

Wednesday's shooting was already the second at a North Carolina high school just this week.

"For the second time this week, we have seen a shooting in a North Carolina school," state governor Roy Cooper said in a statement posted to Twitter.

"We must work to ensure the safety of students and educators, quickly apprehend the shooter and keep guns off school grounds."