Thread: Police: Shots fired at Nevada middle school

Police: Shots fired at Nevada middle school

From Chuck Johnston and Amanda Watts, CNN
updated 11:12 AM EDT, Mon October 21, 2013

(CNN) -- Some people were shot Monday at Sparks Middle School outside Reno, Nevada, police said.
Commander Rocky Triplett of the Sparks Police Department said it was unclear how many people were shot.
Police said on their website that they believe "the suspect has been neutralized."

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/21/justic...hool-shooting/

Police: Report of shooting at Sparks Middle School

Reno Gazette-Journal

Published Monday, Oct. 21, 2013 | 7:54 a.m.
Updated 9 minutes ago
SPARKS — 8:36 a.m. update:
Sparks police will hold a press conference at around 9 a.m. on the shooting at Sparks Middle School.
8:28 a.m. update:
Vickie Campbell of the Washoe County School District said Agnes Risley and Sparks Middle School closed. Children from both schools should be picked up at Sparks High School.
8:15 a.m. update
Students who have been evacuated from Sparks Middle School to Agnes Risley Elementary School will now be transported to Sparks High School, officials said.
Parents will be able to pick them up at Sparks High School as soon as they arrive.
7:58 a.m. update
The streets around Sparks MIddle School and Agnes Risley Elementary School are ringed with emergency vehicles following a shooting this morning at Sparks Middle School.
Parents are being allowed to pick up children, but otherwise traffic is blocked.
A command post has been set up in front of Sparks Middle School. No one is yet giving details to the media about what may have happened.
7:42 a.m. update:
Sparks police spokesman Rocky Triplett has confirmed that a shooting has occurred at Sparks Middle School, and that a shooter has been 'neutralized.'
Students have been evacuated from the school to Agnes Risley Elementary School.
There are no details as to how many people have been shot.
Stay with RGJ.com for more details as they become available.
A 12-year-old boy at Sparks Middle School was shot this morning as classes were starting, and the school has been placed on lockdown.
Students are currently being evacuated to Agnes Risley Elementary School, according to scanner traffic.
At least one person was shot at the school, and police were looking for the suspect.

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Fingers crossed the shooter is not a white male. If it is, then we will have weeks of more propaganda bombardments about taking away the gun rights of Americans.

If the shooter is not a white male, this story will quickly disappear with all the rest of the brown and black on white (and brown and black on brown and black) crime stories suppressed by the media.

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• BREAKING NEWS: 2 dead, 2 critical in Nevada middle school shooting

2 dead at Nevada middle school; witness says student shot teacher

CNN - 7 minutes ago

Teacher killed, two wounded in Nevada middle school shooting

By Megan Ortiz1 hour ago



By Megan Ortiz

SPARKS, Nevada (Reuters) - A teacher was shot dead and two students were wounded when a student opened fire at a middle school in the northern Nevada city of Sparks on Monday before taking his own life, law enforcement officials said.

Both of the wounded students from Sparks Middle School were listed in critical condition at Renown Regional Medical Center in nearby Reno, where one of them had undergone emergency surgery, said Tom Miller, acting Sparks police chief.

"A kid started getting mad and he pulled out a gun and shoots my friend, one of my friends at least," a seventh-grade student identified as Andrew told local KOLO-TV. "And then he walked up to a teacher and says back up, the teacher started backing up and he pulled the trigger."

"The teacher was just lying there and he was limp, he didn't know what to do, he was just in a lot of pain," Andrew told KOLO.
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"And me and five other friends went to him and said come on we've got to get him to safety. We picked him up, carried him a little bit far and we left him because our vice principal came along and said go, go, go get to safety, get to safety. So we left the teacher there and we went to safety," he said.

The incident marked the latest in a string of shooting rampages across the United States in recent years, some of them at schools, that have reignited a national debate over gun control.

In Connecticut last December, 20 students and six adults were shot to death by a gunman at a school in Newtown before the attacker took his own life in what is considered one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

"It's a tragic day for the city of Sparks," Mayor Geno Martini told a late-morning news conference. "I just want to reiterate again that the city itself is very safe and this is just an isolated incident. But it's very, very tragic and I'm saddened to be here to have to tell you this."

Law enforcement officials said the student gunman opened fire at 7:16 a.m. local time, about 15 minutes before classes were scheduled to begin at the school, which serves seventh and eighth grade students.
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Swat team members secure the scene near Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nev., after a shooting there …

"Students are arriving, buses are arriving ... Kids are congregating out back to play sports or waiting for the first bell to ring. The bell rings at 7:30," said Mike Mieras, Washoe County School District police chief.

They said it was too early to tell if the boy, who was not immediately identified by authorities, was targeting anyone in the shooting rampage. They declined to speculate on his motives pending further investigation.
Classes at the middle school and a neighboring elementary school were canceled and authorities said counselors would be on hand to work with students and staff members who were traumatized by the shooting.

"My administration is receiving regular updates and the Nevada Highway Patrol is assisting at the scene," Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval said in a statement.

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Source: Shooter at Nevada middle school took handgun from parents

CNN

- ‎2 minutes ago‎

(CNN) -- [Breaking news update at 5:29 p.m. Monday]. The teacher killed in a shooting at a Nevada middle school Monday was Mike Landsberry, Sparks Mayor Geno Martini told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. . .

Nevada student shoots teacher dead, wounds two before killing self

Reuters

- ‎42 minutes ago‎

By Megan Ortiz and Wishelle Banks. SPARKS, Nevada | Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:42pm EDT. SPARKS, Nevada (Reuters) - A 12-year-old student armed with a semi-automatic handgun shot and killed a math teacher and critically wounded two classmates before ...

Bullying may have motivated Nevada school shooter

BY MELANIE MASON AND DAVID ZUCCHINO The 12-year-old boy who killed a teacher and wounded two others Monday referred to being bullied before taking his own life, witnesses say. . .

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Bullying may have motivated Nevada school shooter

BY MELANIE MASON AND DAVID ZUCCHINO The 12-year-old boy who killed a teacher and wounded two others Monday referred to being bullied before taking his own life, witnesses say. . .

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