Student kills schoolmate and himself in livestreamed Philippine school attack, official says

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A high school student carrying two pistols shot to death a fellow student before killing himself Tuesday in an attack in a southern Philippine high school campus that he livestreamed using a body-worn camera, police and other officials said. It was the second fatal school shooting in the country in just two months.

Hundreds of students were evacuated after shots rang out in the high school building of the Ateneo de Zamboanga university campus in the southern port city of Zamboanga. Two other people were injured, police and city officials said.

The suspect, identified by police as grade 9 student Mohammad Mael Jalani, fired at a teacher sitting in front of a class but apparently missed. He then shot a student on the fourth floor of the building before going up one floor and killing himself, police said in an initial report.

“He entered and started indiscriminately firing, hitting a Grade 10 student at the fourth floor then subsequently went to the fifth floor and jumped from the said building and committed suicide,” Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla told reporters.

“He showed this on Facebook Live starting when he was climbing up the stairs but there were only snippets,” Remulla said. “We'll look into his gaming history and his chat history so we cannot come up with a complete answer why this happened until we do a complete forensic analysis.”

Zamboanga city Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso and the police said the suspect shot himself.

The high school building, where the gun attack happened, is in a secured campus, separate from a larger campus of the privately owned Catholic university where its colleges and professional schools are located in Zamboanga. One of the largest and most prestigious universities in the south, Ateneo suspended classes at all levels Tuesday and Wednesday following the attack.

Joe Darryl Jaron has just driven his child to the school when he heard the gunshots that prompted students to scream in panic and dash to safety. He took a video of the commotion and posted it on Facebook. “There are gunshots here in Ateneo, help! help,” he said.

A few hours after the shooting, police said the situation was under control. They asked parents and guardians of students to remain calm and follow the high school's advice and arrangements to pick up their children.

“Authorities are currently establishing the circumstances surrounding the incident,” national police chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. said. The police “will provide verified information as appropriate and appeals to the public to refrain from sharing unconfirmed reports, photos, or videos that may cause unnecessary concern.”

The national police “assure the public that the safety and well-being of the school community remain a priority. We thank the school administration, parents, guardians, and the community for their patience, cooperation and understanding as authorities continue to manage the situation,” Nartatez said.

One of the pistols carried by the suspect came from his father, who was the Bureau of Customs police commander in Zamboanga, Bureau of Customs deputy commissioner Nolasco Bathan told reporters. He added that he recommended the temporary suspension of the father, who may face administrative charges for failing to properly safeguard the government-issued pistol.

The shooting happened despite police assurances that security in schools across the country would be strengthened after a shooting in June in which three high school students were killed and at least 20 others were wounded in central Tacloban city. Police arrested two students, ages 14 and 15, and accused them of carrying out that shooting.

Crimes involving the use of firearms are prevalent in the Philippines, partly due to the proliferation of unlicensed firearms, but school shootings are relatively rare.

Days after the school shooting in Tacloban, Philippine authorities said they temporarily blocked an online gaming app to assess whether it played a role in fostering such violence. The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center said its decision to indefinitely block Gorebox was prompted by an ongoing police investigation which showed that one suspect was an avid user of the app.

The shooting in the Philippines also occurred less than two weeks after a school shooting in Thailand.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul took steps to restrict guns in the Southeast Asian country after a 14-year-old boy killed his grandparents, five school staff members and a 12-year-old girl in Nonthaburi province outside Bangkok.

Thailand’s high rate of gun ownership is second only to Pakistan in Asia, and far surpasses its Southeast Asian neighbors.

Associated Press journalists Joeal Calupitan in Manila, Philippines, and Haruka Nuga and Jintamas Saksornchai in Bangkok contributed to this report.

Police and security guards secure a junior high school building on the Ateneo de Zamboanga University campus following a shooting incident in Zamboanga, southern Philippines Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo)

A guard secures an area at the junior high school building on the Ateneo de Zamboanga University campus following a shooting incident in Zamboanga, southern Philippines Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo)

Vehicles exit the Ateneo de Zamboanga University following a shooting incident in Zamboanga, southern Philippines Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo) CORRECTION: Corrects date and day

Security guards keep watch as vehicles exit the Ateneo de Zamboanga University following a shooting incident in Zamboanga, southern Philippines Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo)

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Turing, the superintelligence accelerator that drives real economic progress from AI, today announced that Patrick McKinney has joined the company as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). McKinney will lead Turing’s global security strategy as the company scales its work with the world’s leading AI labs and enterprises across highly regulated industries.

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McKinney brings extensive experience building and scaling security programs at high-growth technology companies. Most recently, he served as vice president of security & IT at Invisible Technologies, where he was the company’s first dedicated security hire and built its security organization from the ground up to support some of the world’s largest companies. Earlier in his career, McKinney held security and compliance roles at Dropbox and Coinbase, where he was part of the teams that helped guide both companies through their public offerings.

“Patrick has built security organizations for some of the most demanding and fast-moving technology environments, and he understands that world-class security has to enable a business to move quickly, not stand in its way,” said Jonathan Siddharth, CEO and founder of Turing. “As Turing works with frontier labs and enterprises to build and deploy increasingly capable AI systems, Patrick will help ensure security remains foundational to how we operate and scale.”

“AI is fundamentally changing the security landscape. It gives security teams powerful new capabilities to monitor and respond to threats at scale, while giving adversaries access to capabilities they’ve never had before,” said McKinney. “Turing operates at the forefront of that shift, working with leading AI labs and enterprises across industries and around the world. As AI continues to advance, security has an important role to play in enabling its potential across industries.”

As CISO, McKinney will oversee security across Turing’s frontier AI and enterprise AI businesses. Turing works with leading AI labs and Fortune 500 companies across industries including financial services, life sciences, healthcare, retail and automotive, creating a broad range of security, compliance and data protection requirements.

About Turing

Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing helps frontier AI labs improve model capabilities in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and frontier STEM by providing evaluations, expert human data, and reinforcement learning environments. In software engineering, Turing is the category’s largest and longest-running research and data provider. Turing also helps Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services, life sciences, healthcare, retail, automotive, and CPG to build, deploy, and scale agentic AI systems. By operating on both sides, Turing closes the loop between frontier research and enterprise deployment. Learn more at www.turing.com.

Patrick McKinney, Chief Information Security Officer, Turing