Good morning.

(Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.)

This dispatch comes from Jill, who reported from Santa Clarita:

The contours of the shooting that took place Thursday morning at Saugus High School were stomach-churningly familiar.

A 16-year-old opened fire on his schoolmates before turning the gun on himself. A 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were killed. Three other students were wounded.

[Read the full story about what happened here.]

Talking to parents and students, what struck me was how prepared they seemed.

Everyone I spoke with said they never thought their laid-back suburb — with its quiet neighborhoods of ranch houses and its stucco strip malls — would be the site of a school shooting like the ones they’d seen so many times on the news.