By Jueseppi B.
Associated Press/WSB-TV – In this image made from video and released by WSB-TV, authorities investigate the scene of a school shooting, Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 in Atlanta. Authorities say a 14-year-old has been wounded in a shooting at an Atlanta middle school and a suspect has been taken into custody. Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos says the wounded student has been taken “alert, conscious and breathing” to Grady Hospital. (AP Photo/WSB-TV)
From Yahoo News:
Authorities: Teen wounded at Ga. middle school
By KATE BRUMBACK | Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — A 14-year-old boy was wounded outside a middle school Thursday afternoon and a fellow student was in custody as a suspect, authorities said. No other students were hurt.
Police swarmed Price Middle School just south of downtown Atlanta after reports of the shooting at 1:50 p.m., while a crowd of anxious parents gathered in the streets, awaiting word on their children. Students were being kept at the locked-down school some two hours after the shooting but television footage showed some of them being dismissed.
The wounded boy was taken “alert, conscious and breathing” to Grady Memorial Hospital, said Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos. Atlanta Public Schools said on their website that the suspect also was a student at Price.
Calls to the school district were not immediately returned.
Atlanta Fire Cpt. Marian McDaniel said the teen was shot in the back of the head and a teacher was treated at the scene for minor cuts.
Shakita Walker, whose daughter is an eighth-grader at the school, said she received a text from her that said “Ma somebody’s shooting and somebody got shot.” Walker, who works at another school, said she jumped in her car and was thinking “just hurry up and get there.”
Walker said her daughter called to tell her that they were being kept in the gymnasium, but she said she was anxious to see her to make sure she was OK.
The fear and anxiety was palpable in the crowd, as one person yelled “Does anyone know what happened?”
Mayor Kasim Reed condemned gun violence in a statement shortly after the shooting and said counselors were already at the school to meet with students, faculty and family members.
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Jueseppi B.
This is so heartbreaking. How many have to be killed before we change the laws? How many children? And, is it me or does Wayne LaPierre seem like evil incarnate?
It’s heartbreaking and it makes me angry. LaPierre is the most stupid hateful human I have seen come on my TV screen since John McCain. It’s not over, many more children, adults, women, men, innocents will die….so NRAssholes & their billion dollar gun manufacturer buddies can make a profit.
There is so much going on right now with guns. I am unsure of what will be happening next; but I hope it is positive.
Positive would mean removing access to handguns & assault weapons for all Americans not currently in law enforcement or the military. Thats the only positive that will stop children and adults from dying.
Well said.
I hope you are enjoying a wonderful Thursday evening.