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School shootings in NC and Kentucky leave two injured
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Two U.S. schools were placed on lockdown Tuesday following separate incidents – one in North Carolina and one in Kentucky – with individuals carrying and firing guns on school grounds. Altogether, two people were shot, one associated with each incident.
The occurrences mark the 85th and 86th school shootings since the December 2012 tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to a list compiled by Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
Both North Carolina and Kentucky received “F” grades on gun laws in 2013 because lawmakers passed laws that weaken firearms regulation, according to the state scorecard jointly released at the end of last year by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The organizations ranked all 50 states based on 30 policy approaches regulating guns and ammunition, including strengthening background checks, reporting lost or stolen firearms, and prohibiting dangerous people from purchasing weapons.
North Carolina
A student was shot and another one was taken into police custody after an altercation at Albemarle High School in North Carolina before the start of classes early Tuesday morning. The two male students were arguing in the courtyard at the front of the building before the suspect pulled a gun from his waistband and fired twice at the other individual, once in the lower abdomen and once in the hip, Albemarle Police Chief William Halliburton told msnbc.
By the afternoon, the victim, 17-year-old Bernard Miller, underwent surgery for critical injuries at a nearby hospital. The suspect faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and intent to kill.
Officers recovered a pistol at the scene of the altercation. Halliburton wouldn’t release the name of the suspect, who is a juvenile.
The high school was placed on lockdown as emergency crews searched and eventually evacuated the building, which they deemed safe less than two hours after the 911 call reporting the shooting. Classes were canceled for the remainder of the day, but it was unclear whether administrators would close the school on Wednesday.
Halliburton said his police force receives yearly “rapid-response training.” In June, local and county police officers, school administrators, and fire and emergency personnel participated in their first mock shooting drill to train for active-shooter situations.
“You always hear of it happening somewhere else, and when it happens here you have to be ready for it,” Halliburton said.
Kentucky
Hours later in Kentucky, police began their search for a gunman who fled the scene after officers responded to reports of shots fired at Fern Creek High School in Louisville. One victim, a student, suffered non-life threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital, police told reporters on Tuesday afternoon.
Law enforcement officials found and took the suspect into custody without incident by early Tuesday evening. Authorities described the teenager as a 15- or 16-year-old boy, whom they found at an apartment complex within walking distance of the school. They would not disclose whether or not the suspect was a student at the high school.
Students and faculty were placed on lockdown, and authorities later escorted them out of the school to meet parents at a nearby park. Images emerged of students exiting the building with their hands on their heads.
The incident appeared to be isolated to one part of the high school, although Fern Creek Elementary School was also placed on lockdown.
Police did not release details about the nature of the incident between the suspect and the victim.
“This is senseless. This is unacceptable. This cannot be happening in our schools,” Jefferson County Public Schools spokesman Ben Jackey said during a press conference. “This is not the kind of things students should be exposed to.”
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how sad
