Shannon Howard James Pitts, 18, was charged Thursday with two counts of having a gun on school property — a felony — and one count of misdemeanor carrying a concealed gun.
The police officers immediately responded at Forsyth Technical Community College in North Carolina after deeming it a possible school shooting. The young boy who shot himself is now being treated at the hospital.
Shannon Howard James Pitts of Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy, on a field trip at Forsyth Technical Community College, shot himself in the hand, leading to a lockdown of the school and a massive police response, Winston-Salem police said.
The city is well-schooled and unsurprised by another outbreak of violence on a campus. The terror at Forsyth Tech was real and only the latest in an unbroken sting of