1 injured in shooting at Florida high school, authorities say
Source: CNN
(CNN)A student was wounded and a suspect is in custody after a shooting Friday morning at a high school in Ocala, Florida, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
The student was shot in the ankle, said Kevin Christian, Marion Public Schools spokesman.
Authorities asked residents to avoid the area of Forest High School, which was surrounded by emergency vehicles and buses transporting students away from the scene.
The shooting comes on the same day as a National School Walkout against gun violence. It's been more than two months since the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and teachers were killed.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/20/us/florida-high-school-shooting/index.html
On the 19th anniversary of Columbine shooting.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,498 posts)Maybe some of their shooting range targets should have guns, too......
From the article (snip):
"The father of a witness to the shooting told the newspaper that the shooter was standing in the hallway and shot at a classroom door that was shut then dropped the weapon, ran and tried to hide.
Authorities took the suspect into custody shortly after. The persons identity was not released and investigators have not given details about a suspected motive.
The shooting at a public high school prompted panic in the city of nearly 60,000 people. Parents rushed to the school to pick up rattled children, only to be directed elsewhere by Sheriffs deputies.
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It's a miracle no one was killed or seriously injured here. My daughter is a teacher and these events scare the hell out of me.
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Grins
(7,257 posts)Well, Ms Porter...? Can you demonstrate your age, wisdom, and experience here?
keithbvadu2
(37,012 posts)To the gun industry, dead children are merely collateral damage/acceptable losses for gun industry profits and political donations.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,498 posts)Think Puerto Rico hurricane and pre-9/11 (Bush).
Thanks for posting that. Ms. Porter's wisdom should tell her to bolster school security (see my post #4, below) and start listening to our youth. They will own her soon!
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KY_EnviroGuy
(14,498 posts)Sounds like serious lapse in school security.
See: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/os-shooting-forest-high-school-marion-county-20180420-story.html
One injured, one in custody in Marion County high school shooting
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One student was injured and a 19-year-old was arrested after a shooting at Forest High School in Marion County Friday morning, a sheriff's office spokeswoman said.
A Marion County deputy stationed at Forest High School heard the gunshot at 8:39 a.m. and had the 19-year-old in custody by 8:42 a.m., Sheriff Billy Woods said. The 19-year-old was not a student, Woods said. He did not release his name.
The injured student, 17, was being treated by medics, spokeswoman Valerie Strong said. Woods called the injury non-life-threatening.
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riversedge
(70,420 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)Curt Anderson, Associated Press
Updated 4:12 pm, Friday, April 20, 2018
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) A gunman who carried a shotgun in a guitar case opened fire Friday in a Florida high school, wounding one student before he was arrested on a day planned for a national classroom walkout to protest gun violence, authorities said.
It happened at Forest High School, which was put on lockdown, the Marion County Sheriff's Office reported. A 17-year-old boy was taken to a local hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening wound to his ankle.
Some students and teachers piled desks and filing cabinets against classroom doors as a makeshift barricade.
Police initially said the 19-year-old suspect is also a student at the school, but later said he was a former student not currently enrolled. No charges were immediately announced.
More:
https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/1-injured-suspect-in-custody-in-Florida-school-12850674.php