Rigby Middle School students heard screams & saw blood in the hallways after sixth-grade girl shot three
Updated: May 7 2021, 12:16 ET
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STUDENTS said that they heard screams and saw blood in the halls after a sixth-grade girl shot three people.
The three people who were shot in the Thursday morning attack sustained non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
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Officers rushed to the sceneCredit: AP
Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said the girl pulled a handgun from her backpack at the Idaho middle school and fired off several rounds. A sixth-grade, female student retrieved a handgun from her backpack, she fired multiple rounds inside of the school and out [and] she injured three people, Anderson said.
BOISE, IDAHO A sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, shot and wounded two students and a custodian and then was disarmed by a teacher Thursday, authorities said. The three victims were shot in their limbs and expected to survive, officials said at a news conference. Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson says the girl pulled a handgun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds inside and outside Rigby Middle School in the small city of Rigby, about 95 miles (145 kilometres) southwest of Yellowstone National Park. A female teacher disarmed the girl and held her until law enforcement arrived and took her into custody, authorities said, without giving other details. Authorities say they re investigating the motive for the attack and where the girl got the gun.
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Math teacher Krista Turnblom Gneiting, 45, disarmed a sixth grade girl who opened fire at Rigby Middle School in Idaho on Thursday morning
Three people were shot - two students and one adult janitor - and taken to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in non-critical condition
She received praise for her heroic act and she took to social media to thank her community for its support
Gneiting said she did not want any money and said we will get through this together in a Facebook post
Rigby, ID – Students at Rigby Middle School said that at first they thought their principal had gotten more creative by adding terrifying sounds to a lockdown drill on Thursday after a 6th Grade girl opened fire on her classmates and school staff.
Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said the girl took a handgun out of her backpack at about 9:15 a.m. on May 6 and opened fire in the middle school’s hallway, the Citizen Times reported.
The girl shot two people inside the school building before she went outside and shot one more person.
A female teacher disarmed the shooter and held her until police arrived, the Associate Press reported.
In the US, sixth-grade children are usually 11 or 12 years old.
A teacher disarmed the girl and held her until law enforcement arrived and took her into custody, authorities said.
All three victims were shot in their extremities. Authorities say they are investigating the motive for the attack and how the girl got the gun.
Police were called to the school at about 9.15am after pupils and staffers heard gunfire.
“Me and my classmate were just in class with our teacher – we were doing work – and then all of a sudden, there was a loud noise and then there were two more loud noises. Then there was screaming,” said Yandel Rodriguez, 12. “Our teacher went to check it out and he found blood.”