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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
Freedomofspeech
(4,227 posts)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)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)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)the nation is saturated with firearms.
Will they prosecute the negligent party? Unlikely. "They've suffered enough"...
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)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.