US reporter at scene of school shooting ‘finds out suspect is own son’

A journalist who went to the scene of a deadly US school shooting discovered the 15-year-old alleged attacker was her son, it is claimed.

Two students were killed and 21 injured at the Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky.

The editor of the Marshall County Daily Online, Mary Garrison Minyard, had gone to the site following reports of gunshots, according to colleague Ann Beckett.

Ms Beckett told the Courier Journal she went to comfort the editor and take over the story.

Gabe Parker has been named as the boy who allegedly pulled out a handgun and opened fire before classes were due to begin on Tuesday.

His mother, Ms Garrison Minyard, and other members of his family have declined to comment, said the Courier Journal.

The motive for the shooting is not known.

Friends and others who know Parker, a pupil who played trombone in the school band, described him as a shy, red-headed “grandma’s boy” who would go fishing with his grandparents.