BOISE, Idaho â Authorities said they are trying to determine what prompted a young girl to open fire at a rural Idaho middle school, one of the few school shootings in which the suspect is female.
The shooting happened around 9 a.m. Thursday, May 6, when police reported the girl pulled a handgun out of her backpack and shot two other students and an adult custodian before a teacher disarmed and held her until police arrived. All three were shot in the extremities, and none had life-threatening injuries.
Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said May 7 the investigation is likely to take a âconsiderable amount of time.â He said neither the name of the suspect â a sixth-grade girl â nor the name of the teacher who disarmed her would be immediately released.
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Authorities say they are trying to determine what prompted a young girl to open fire at a rural Idaho middle school, one of the few school shootings in which the suspect is female.
The shooting happened around 9 a.m. Thursday, when police say the girl pulled a handgun out of her backpack and shot two other students and an adult custodian before she was disarmed by a teacher and held until police arrived. All three were shot in the extremities, and none had life-threatening injuries.
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An eighth-grade teacher in Idaho was credited with disarming a sixth-grade girl who opened fire in a school on May 6, according to the teacher’s father.
The teacher, Krista Gneiting, was trying to rush a wounded student to safety when she saw the girl with the gun run across the hallway.
“So she sat the boy down and told him to be quiet and to be still. And she started walking toward the girl, talking to her very calmly and telling her things would be OK, we just needed to stop and think things through a little bit and just tried to settle her down,” her father, Dean Turnblom, told Fox News last week.
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The teacher, Krista Turnblom Gneiting, is an 8th grade teacher at Rigby Middle School. Family members say Gneiting recounted her experience on Thursday night. FOX 10 s Nicole Garcia reports.
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The incident happened outside Rigby Middle School, located in a small city just outside of Idaho Falls. Idaho Falls is about 214 miles north of Salt Lake City. According to officials, the student pulled the handgun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds inside and outside the school. Two students and a custodian were wounded.
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Students are seen leaving Rigby Middle School after a shooting that wounded three Thursday morning. | Eric Grossarth, EastIdahoNews.com
RIGBY Schools in Jefferson County plan to reopen Tuesday after a school shooting at Rigby Middle School wounded three.
Jefferson County School District 251 Superintendent Chad Martin said in a news release that the decision to return to school next week comes after meeting with teachers, staff and mental health professionals. The district closed all schools Friday and classes are canceled Monday following Thursday’s shooting.