The family of a boy who was shot to death at a Madison County middle school in 2010 is suing Madison school officials and others. They say the school officials failed to protect him from a problem student. The News Courier reports (http://bit.ly/z6WjDi ) the lawsuit was filed Thursday in Madison County. The suit states [...]
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The fatal shooting of 17-year-old Terrance Wilkins outside Central High School on Friday was an isolated incident, but also a sign of youth gun violence targeted for greater attention, Memphis police and school officials said Tuesday. Wilkins died over the weekend at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis after being shot in the head at [...]
An unidentified 7-year-old from Mesa, Ariz., has been detailed after a handgun he brought discharged on a loaded school bus, authorities say, according to KSAZ TV. About 30 students were on board. The report states that no one was injured on the bus from the Franklin Elementary School, and that the discharged bullet was lodged [...]
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Police said a Lawrence school bus driver was shot in the arm with a pellet gun by a student aboard the bus. Authorities said the 50-year-old driver was not seriously hurt, but radioed to school officials and police to meet the bus at the school because it was unclear what kind of weapon was used. [...]
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Campus officials report that a shooting took place Tuesday afternoon at the Haas School of Business. The suspect was seen carrying a gun. A staff member reported this to the police, who responded immediately. The suspect entered a computer room, where police followed him and asked him to put up his hands. The suspect then [...]
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A middle school school student was shot and wounded about 3:30 p.m. today as she walked home from Jennings Junior High School, police and witnesses said. The girl was shot in the face at Hord and Emilie avenues, said St. Louis County Police Capt. Troy Doyle, who commands the precinct that patrols Jennings. Doyle said [...]
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Police in Astoria have arrested a 16-year-old high school student accused of trying to recruit a friend to join him in a planned school shooting. The arrest came Monday after the 15-year-old friend showed Astoria High School officials printed Facebook messages from the other teen. The initial investigation indicates “this was not a single conversation [...]
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A Riverside high school was temporarily put on lockdown Wednesday after one person was killed and another injured in an apparent murder-suicide. A man shot a woman, then turned the gun on himself at Patriot High School’s parking lot in Jurupa Valley Wednesday morning, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Officials said no students [...]
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A lunchtime fight at Oakland High School Thursday left a 16-year-old girl with superficial knife wounds on her face, according to accounts from school district police officers at the scene and school district spokesman Troy Flint. Police said it appeared that the 16-year-old was injured after she and another student attacked a girl — who [...]
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