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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
struggle4progress
(118,293 posts)... 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)Unbelievable stroke of luck there.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)Not.
Remind me again how guns make us safer.
B2G
(9,766 posts)Sounds like a targeted grudge. Thank god for the resource officer.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/1-shot-at-marion-county-high-school-deputies-say
triron
(22,006 posts)struggle4progress
(118,293 posts)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)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