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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 04:27 PM Feb 2018

*Another gun finds it's way into a school today*

Police: Student shoots himself in middle school bathroom in Ohio


Updated 33 mins ago
MASSILLON, Ohio -- Police in Ohio say a 7th-grader apparently brought a gun to school and shot himself inside a bathroom.

Investigators say no other students have been hurt and they don't know yet whether the shooting Tuesday morning was intentional.

A school official says the student is being treated at a hospital. His condition wasn't immediately known.

Parents rushed to Jackson Middle School, near Massillon, to pick up their children after the school sent out a notice about the shooting.

Authorities and school officials say they don't know whether the student was alone at the time of the shooting and haven't released any other details about what happened.

Massillon is located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Cleveland.

http://abc7ny.com/police-student-shoots-himself-in-middle-school-bathroom/3113790/?sf182589790=1

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*Another gun finds it's way into a school today* (Original Post) SummerSnow Feb 2018 OP
7th grade... Freedomofspeech Feb 2018 #1
How are these kids Ohiogal Feb 2018 #2
I have no idea... Freedomofspeech Feb 2018 #3
Probably Dad, and in a backpack. maxsolomon Feb 2018 #5
My son is in 7th grade. MontanaMama Feb 2018 #4

Freedomofspeech

(4,227 posts)
1. 7th grade...
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 04:32 PM
Feb 2018

Wow...what the hell? My grandson is in 7th grade at a school in a suburban Cleveland. I do not know how these kids and teachers go off to school everyday.

Ohiogal

(32,057 posts)
2. How are these kids
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 04:37 PM
Feb 2018

getting their hands on deadly weapons?? And how are they getting them into the school?

This happened about an hour's drive west of where I live.

Freedomofspeech

(4,227 posts)
3. I have no idea...
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 04:43 PM
Feb 2018

A local woman in Uniontown, PA, was arrested for buying her 9th grade assult weapons...he had threatened to shoot up the school and when they went to the house they found his room full of weapons that the mother had bought him.

maxsolomon

(33,400 posts)
5. Probably Dad, and in a backpack.
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 05:00 PM
Feb 2018

the nation is saturated with firearms.

Will they prosecute the negligent party? Unlikely. "They've suffered enough"...

MontanaMama

(23,337 posts)
4. My son is in 7th grade.
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 04:53 PM
Feb 2018

It is all I can do to send him out the door in the morning these days. The conversations that we have had about guns, fire alarms, how and where to barricade if necessary, ways to escape the school when the reason for an emergency isn't clear etc have my stomach in knots and keep me awake at night. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.

I hope the kiddo in this article makes it through and is okay.

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