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Title: Student Shot at California High School
Post by: klaasend on January 10, 2013, 06:15:03 PM
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57563309/student-shot-at-calif-high-school-by-classmate-suspect-talked-into-surrendering-by-staff/ (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57563309/student-shot-at-calif-high-school-by-classmate-suspect-talked-into-surrendering-by-staff/)

 CBS/AP/ January 10, 2013, 1:14 PM
Student shot at Calif. high school by classmate; suspect talked into surrendering by staff

Updated at 4:14 p.m. ET

TAFT, Calif. A 16-year-old student armed with a shotgun walked into class in a rural California high school on Thursday and shot one student, fired at another but missed, and then was talked into surrendering by a teacher and another staff member, officials said.

The teen victim was in critical but stable condition, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood told a press conference. The sheriff said the teacher suffered a minor pellet wound to the head but declined treatment.
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The shooter may have had up to 20 shotgun rounds in his pockets, he said.

Officials said there's usually an armed officer on campus but the person wasn't there because he was snowed in. Taft police officers arrived within 60 seconds of first reports.
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Title: Re: Student Shot at California High School
Post by: klaasend on January 10, 2013, 09:56:05 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/10/us/california-school-shooting/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/10/us/california-school-shooting/index.html)

California sheriff: Youth who shot classmate felt he'd been bullied
By Michael Martinez, CNN
updated 8:54 PM EST, Thu January 10, 2013

(CNN) -- A 16-year-old student who blasted a California high school classroom with a shotgun Thursday was targeting two classmates because he felt he'd been bullied, the local sheriff said Thursday night.

One student was hit and was in critical but stable condition Thursday night, and the shooter was in custody after a teacher and the school's campus supervisor talked him into putting his shotgun down.

Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said he did not know whether bullying had actually occurred between the Taft Union High School students.

"But certainly he (the shooter) believed that the two people he had targeted had bullied him," Youngblood said at an evening news conference in Taft, about 30 miles from Bakersfield.
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