People embrace after a school shooting at Rigby Middle School (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP)
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Three people have been injured in a shooting at a school in the US.
Two students and a custodian were injured in the shooting in eastern Idaho, authorities said. A male student has been taken into custody.
The victims’ injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, said Jefferson County sheriff Steve Anderson.
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RIGBY, Idaho It is an absolute blessing that two students and a custodian were not more seriously injured or killed after being shot Thursday morning at Rigby Middle School.
Dr. Michael Lemon, the trauma medical director at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, said during a news conference at the Jefferson School District Office that three victims sustained injuries that were not life-threatening injuries and should recover.
The school employee was shot one time in what Lemon described as a through-and-through extremity injury. He was treated and released by Thursday afternoon. One student was shot once in an extremity and may require surgery, according to Lemon. The other student was potentially shot twice, and two limbs were hit.
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Idaho lawmakers have advanced a bill that would prohibit public schools, including public universities, from teaching that “any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin is inherently superior or inferior,” which, according to the bill, is often found in “critical race theory.”
It also prohibits teachings arguing that “individuals, by virtue of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, are inherently responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin.”
Three injured in Idaho school shooting
People embrace after a school shooting at Rigby Middle School (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP)
Three people have been injured in a shooting at a school in the US.
Two students and a custodian were injured in the shooting in eastern Idaho, authorities said. A male student has been taken into custody.
The victims’ injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, said Jefferson County sheriff Steve Anderson.
Police were called to the school at around 9.15am local time after students and staff heard gunfire. Multiple law enforcement agencies responded and students were evacuated to a nearby high school to be reunited with their parents.
Two students and one custodian were injured in a shooting that took place at Rigby Middle School at 8:12 a.m. May 6.Â
Central Fire Chief Carl Anderson stated in a press conference following the shooting that the injured staff member had placed himself between the shooter and the two students. The staff member and two students have been transferred to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center for treatment.
Anderson further said that the shooter had been apprehended between the time of 8:12 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. Identities of the victims and the shooter have not been released at this time.Â
According to a press release by Jefferson Joint School Dist. #251, the injuries sustained are non-life threatening. Students from the middle school were evacuated to Rigby High School where parents may pick them up. Students that are not picked up will be bussed home.