Authorities described the student as a juvenile male but did not provide further identification or specifics pending an investigation
Wisconsin police shot and killed a student who officials say came to a local middle school with a gun. The student never got into the school, but as a precaution the entire district was put on a lockdown late Wednesday morning.
Students have since been reunited with their parents, some of whom waited up to five hours for their children to be dropped at a bus storage center in Mount Horeb, a village about 20 miles south-west of Madison, the state capital, according to WMTV 15 news.
No other students or staff were injured in the shooting, Josh Kaul, Wisconsin’s attorney general, said during a Wednesday news conference.
The kid just had a gun and didn’t shoot it or anything…? Was there no intent to do a “shooting”?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-fatally-shoot-student-wisconsin-middle-school-responding-report-rcna150308
Not a ton more detail, but it sounds like a kid has a visible gun that some students reported seeing. Then they tried to enter the school, but the school had a video doorbell/door buzzer type setup. There were five or so shots in quick succession that must’ve included officers.
Have to wait on more info, but it sounds like at worst they failed to deescalate. At best they showed up and the kid started shooting and they returned fire.
No innocent kids died, so that’s a win in my book.
While it’s good news not to have a fresh school shooting, how hard is it to detain a middle schooler without murdering them…?
A tragedy of firearms is it makes children just as dangerous as anyone else. If the child was using the gun, they were the most dangerous person in the school.
The firearm is called the great equalizer for a reason.
This was still a school shooting. Justified or not, a child was still murdered.
So all he did was illegally have a fire arm and he was executed for it and that’s a win in your book? Sick fuck
Something else happened, kids bring guns to schools all the time and don’t get caught if they don’t flash them around. It’s gotten to the point where some schools have metal detectors at the entrances.
Shortly after Columbine, my school banned backpacks and if you brought a lunch box to school, they would want to search it.
That’s a wild thing to say
Depends how you think about it. Out in the more rural parts of America there’s gun safety education and target practice shooting where guns are provided to kids under supervision for extra circular activities and no one even questions it. Those are generally not the schools that make the news though. All provided within the public education sector and at schools.
Yes, if your an American your taxes may have supported teaching some country kid out in the Appalachian Mountains how to hunt with a gun, it’s not very uncommon. You have to take the good with the bad. How does the saying go " I would rather let 99 murderers go free than convict one innocent person".