01-14-2014, 11:47 PM
(01-14-2014, 04:12 PM)SIXFOOTERsez Wrote: Crazy Bastards
Roswell school shooting: At least 2 students hurt, suspect in custody
Two kids have been injured during shooting at Roswell, NM, school. (KTNV)
ROSWELL, N.M.—
A shooter opened fire at a middle school in Roswell, New Mexico, Tuesday morning, wounding at least two students, according to local police and hospital reports.
According to the New Mexico Department of Public Safety, authorities responded at 8:11 a.m. to reports of shots fired at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell.
The Roswell Police Department, through its Facebook page, quickly confirmed that a suspect was in custody, but police did not release any other details.
There will be a press conference at 1 p.m. local time.
Two students were being flown to Lubbock, Texas, said University Medical Center Health System spokesman Eric Finley. A 14-year-old boy is said to be in critical condition and was being taken by helicopter. A 13-year-old girl taken by plane, has been upgraded to serious condition.
There also were earlier reports of two students taken via ambulance to a local hospital.
Kathy Sigala, a parent, told Roswell television station KOB, an NBC affiliate, that she was made aware of the shooting by a phone call from an office colleague.
"It was scary, it was freaky," Sigala told the station. "We just can't believe that it would happen here."
A woman, who asked not be identified, waiting to pick up her 14-year-old son told a Los Angeles Times reporter at the scene that her son called about 7:50 a.m. from a locked room in the school office. She was told that teachers and fellow students were inside.
All were safe, she said. According to the boy, a person with a shotgun was in the school and was tackled and caught, the woman said.
A dispatcher with the Roswell police said the initial report came from the Chaves County Sheriff's Office, but officials there could not be reached early Tuesday.
The Roswell Independent School District has not acknowledged the incident on their web site. A recorded voice message on the school's phone instructed parents to pick up their children at a nearby location.
Roswell is located about 200 miles southeast of Albuquerque.
The incident was the second at a middle school in three months. In October, a 12-year-old boy opened fire with a handgun at his middle school in Sparks, Nevada, killing a teacher and wounding two other students before shooting himself to death.
It comes amid a national debate on gun control, after a gunman shot to death 20 students and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut in December, 2012. Following that attack, President Barack Obama called for sweeping new gun control measures.
Crazy shit, Six.
Turns out the suspect in custody is a 12 year-old student - again.
The two seriously wounded students are a 13 year-old girl and an 11 year-old boy. Earlier conflicting reports cited his age as 14 and 12-years-old.
Information from the nurses treating the boy, who's in critical condition, indicates he was the shooter's target, hospital spokesman Eric Finley said.
Police are investigating. Some talk that the shooter may have been bullied, just talk at this point, but it doesn't matter to me even if he was.
Really hoping that the two kids who were shot pull through.
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-boy-1...njuring-2/