A 14 years old boy has shot and killed his father then drove to an elementary school in South Carolina and opened fire with a handgun, wounding two children and a teacher on Wednesday.

Volunteer firefighter Jamie Brock held the suspect down on a playground behind Townville Elementary School in Anderson County until police arrived, giving a teacher time to get students inside the building. The teenager never entered the school, located near the Georgia state line about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Atlanta.

Anderson County emergency services director Taylor Jones said of Brock, “He risked his life to mitigate this incident. He used enough force to take him to the ground.” U.S. schools have taken added security precautions since 2012 when a gunman shot dead 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Scott Stoller, Anderson County’s director of emergency services, told the Anderson Independent Mail, that Wednesday’s shooting left a 6 years old boy in critical condition and undergoing surgery.

Juana Slade, spokeswoman for AnMed Health Medical Center that the other boy and a female teacher were in good condition, said. Both boys were 6 years old.

The teenager shot his 47 years old father, Jeffrey DeWitt Osborne, in the chest then drove a pickup truck about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the school where he crashed the vehicle into the fence surrounding the playground. The teenager was not named.

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By Prakriti Neogi