Sixth Grade Girl Pulls Handgun Out At School And Shoots Three People
Stewart Perrie
3:38 AM, May 07 2021 GMT+1
A sixth grade student has been taken into custody after a school shooting in the US state of Idaho.
US media report the unnamed girl pulled out a handgun out of her backpack after arriving at the Rigby Middle School in Rigby.
She unloaded several bullets in the hallway of the school, injuring two students and an adult.
The gunshots sent students and adults fleeing in terror and many hid in hope they wouldn t become another statistic in America s unending school shooting nightmare.
At least three were reported injured after a sixth grade girl opened fire at an Idaho middle school on Thursday. The tragic incident happened in Rigby Middle School about 95 miles from the Yellowstone National Park, Associated Press reported.
The motive for the sudden shooting is yet to be identified by the authorities, and it is still not clear how the female sixth grader got her handgun in the first place. Moreover, the name of the suspect was not given by the officials, but County Sheriff Steve Anderson disclosed that the female sixth grader is from a nearby city of Idaho Falls.
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A SIXTH-grade girl brought a gun to Rigby Middle School in Idaho and shot two students and a janitor before a teacher disarmed her.
The three people who were shot in the Thursday morning attack sustained non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
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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.
She was disarmed by a female teacher and held until police arrived to take her into custody, Anderson said.
2 students, 1 adult injured in Idaho middle school shooting
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May 6 (UPI) Two students and one adult sustained injuries Thursday after a sixth-grade student opened fire at an Idaho middle school, police said.
Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said officers arrested the suspected gunman, who pulled a gun from her backpack at Rigby Middle School and shot two people. She went outside the school and shot a third person, he added.
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Anderson said a teacher disarmed the student and detained her until police arrived at the scene. This is the worst nightmare a school district could ever face, Superintendent Chad Martin said during a news conference. We prepare for it, but we re never truly ready for it.