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WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 05:29 PM Jan 2013

student shot at high school in Taft, Calif.

TAFT, Calif. (AP) — 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.

When the shots were fired, the teacher began trying to get the more than two dozen students out a back door and also engaged the shooter in conversation to distract him, Youngblood said. A campus supervisor responding to a call of shots fired also began talking to him.

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student shot at high school in Taft, Calif. (Original Post) WI_DEM Jan 2013 OP
Imagine the guy had an AR-15. upaloopa Jan 2013 #1

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
1. Imagine the guy had an AR-15.
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 05:54 PM
Jan 2013

He may have killed a bunch of students.
As we progress from sticks to stones to knives to shotguns to semi automatics the death toll often rises.

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