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struggle4progress

(118,293 posts)
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 02:41 PM Apr 2018

Gunman opens fire at Florida high school on Columbine anniversary

By MARK CHANDLER
PUBLISHED: 19:02, Fri, Apr 20, 2018
UPDATED: 19:11, Fri, Apr 20, 2018

... The shooting took place this morning at Forest High School in Ocala.

Officers said the suspected shooter, aged 19, had been arrested at the school building ...

The latest shooting at a US school came as thousands of students planned classroom walkouts to mark the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School killings ...

Forest High School had announced it would be taking part in the action ...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/949008/florida-high-school-shooting-forest-high-school-ocala-columbine-anniversary

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Gunman opens fire at Florida high school on Columbine anniversary (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2018 OP
Sheriff: Shooting of Florida high school student 'intentional' struggle4progress Apr 2018 #1
Hard to imagine someone opening fire during a walkout and only 1 person being mildly injured. bearsfootball516 Apr 2018 #2
What an excellent way to celebrate. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2018 #3
The shooter wasn't a student. B2G Apr 2018 #4
Some pro-gun crazy triron Apr 2018 #5
The accused gunman ... told Channel 9's Samantha Manning struggle4progress Apr 2018 #6
Florida school gunman carried shotgun in guitar case struggle4progress Apr 2018 #7

struggle4progress

(118,293 posts)
1. Sheriff: Shooting of Florida high school student 'intentional'
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 02:42 PM
Apr 2018

... At around 8:39 a.m., a school resource officer heard a "loud, bang sound. Gun shot," from the high school described Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods during a news conference ...

Three minutes later, the unnamed officer found a 17-year-old student shot with non-life threatening injuries. The officer did not fire his weapon and was able to engage the shooter, who was taken into custody, Woods described ...

http://www.mynews13.com//fl/orlando/news/2018/04/20/shooting-reported-at-central-florida-high-school--1-in-custody.html

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)
2. Hard to imagine someone opening fire during a walkout and only 1 person being mildly injured.
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 02:43 PM
Apr 2018

Unbelievable stroke of luck there.

struggle4progress

(118,293 posts)
6. The accused gunman ... told Channel 9's Samantha Manning
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 11:48 PM
Apr 2018

while he was escorted to the Marion County Jail that he didn't see anyone and shot through a door at the school.

"Anything you want to say to him (the victim) or his family?" Manning asked Bouche.

"Sorry," Bouche said. "Doesn't make it better anyway."

He would not answer any questions about why he allegedly shot the student ...

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/timeline-forest-high-school-shooting/735155751

struggle4progress

(118,293 posts)
7. Florida school gunman carried shotgun in guitar case
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 11:51 PM
Apr 2018

Curt Anderson
Associated Press

... Authorities said Bouche was a former student at the school ...

"I didn't shoot anyone," he said to reporters. He ignored most of the other questions until asked what he'd say to the shooting victim. That's when he said, "sorry" ...

Chris Oliver told the Ocala Star-Banner his 16-year-old son, a Forest student, told him the shooting happened near his classroom. The boy told Oliver the shooter stood in a hallway and fired at a closed classroom door. The shooter then dropped the weapon, ran and tried to hide, the boy told his father ...

Forest High has an enrollment of more than 2,000 students ...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-florida-school-shooting-20180420-story.html

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