The 16-year-old Saugus High School student who shot five classmates and then himself has died in the hospital.
Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow, a junior at the school who was being treated at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital for a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, died as a result of those injuries Friday, Sgt. Jennier Roth of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department wrote in a news release.
His mother was present at the time of his passing.
Berhow shot and killed two Saugus High School students and wounded three others shortly after 7:30 a.m. Thursday in the school’s open quad area.
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