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By Tina Burnside and Jason Hanna, CNN
Updated 9:23 AM ET, Thu March 4, 2021
Parents pick up students from the school on Monday after the shooting. (CNN)A 15-year-old boy who was shot Monday at a junior high school in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, has died from his injuries, police said.
The teen was pronounced dead Wednesday evening, Pine Bluff police said in a prepared statement.
Monday s shooting happened at Watson Chapel Junior High in Pine Bluff, a city of about 43,000 people located about a 45-mile drive southeast of Little Rock.
A suspect also a 15-year-old boy who was a student there was taken into custody Monday after being found hiding behind a house near the school, police said.