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Shooting at a High School in New Orleans one student killed and 2 injured school is on lockdown, bonnie have you heard anything about this, just heard it on msnbc

yikes!

Here is the article I found on WDSU website

3 Suspects In Custody After Fatal School Shooting

Violence Erupts Near McDonogh Gymnasium

POSTED: 10:57 a.m. CDT April 14, 2003
UPDATED: 12:10 p.m. CDT April 14, 2003

NEW ORLEANS -- Three suspects were in custody and one remained at large after gunfire erupted Monday at John McDonogh High School.

One student, a male whose identity is not yet known, was killed in the shooting, which happened at about 10:30 a.m.

Three other students were injured and taken to Charity Hospital: a 15-year-old female was in serious condition and undergoing surgery on gunshot wounds to her leg, a 16-year-old female was being treated for a gunshot wound to the thigh, and another 16-year-old female was being treated for a gunshot wound to her buttock.

Police were working two scenes at the school on Esplanade Avenue, one inside the gymnasium and another outside on school grounds.

The school was on lockdown for about an hour and a half after the shooting, with no one being allowed to enter or leave the building. At noon, parents were allowed to pick up their children.

Police blanketed the neighborhood, many of them running with guns drawn, according to WDSU NewsChannel 6 reporter Heath Allen.

As news of the shooting broke, parents began arriving at the school. People lined the streets outside the school, Allen said.

One man, identified only as Tyrone, said his girlfriend's 16-year-old daughter called him from the school on her cell phone, begging her mother to come get her. The girl described to the man a chaotic scene in which at least two gunmen began firing inside the school gym.

A McDonogh teacher, who asked not to be identified, called the WDSU newsroom. She said the students in her classroom were safe but nervous.

TheNewOrleansChannel.com will update this story as details become available. Please refresh the page for the latest information.

Copyright 2003 by TheNewOrleansChannel.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

I heard also. It's terrible!!

It seems like the school shootings have taken place towards the end of the year.

Hey Bre,
Heard it while I was at lunch. It was a revenge shooting.
How terribly sad this is.

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YEEOOOWWW!!!!!!

My prayers & thoughts go out to the students who survived the shooting.

In my days in school the worst you had to worry about was a black eye...

How sad indeed. We don't need anymore of these.

mf_dolfin >>In my days in school the worst you had to worry about was a black eye... <<

Same here mf. This is a terribly tragic story. I didn't have the TV on today so I had no idea this had happened til I read it here. I have two daughters 12 and 15 and something like this makes you treasure your kids more. I do think they go to school in a good district but we've discussed things like this. Report rumors you might hear about a student upset, wanting revenge, etc. I have two older brothers, both in their 50s, who played cops and robbers and GI Joe stuff all year long. They were always into fights, just a year apart in age. Toys guns, bottle caps, etc. Things that you would think twice about today encouraging. I also recall using the phrase - I'm gonna kill you - when you were just mad at someone. It never meant "kill" it just meant clobber or beat up. You have to wonder why kids today think they must resort to this - is it b/c of violent movies, video games, parental non-involvement? So very sad.

Yet another school, how awful. There hasn't been on in while, considering they were more frequent in the last few years.

I am somewhat surprised MSNBC reported this, (with the continuing live coverage on Operation Iraqi Freedom), I haven't heard it on Fox News Channel. Does anyone know if CNN had reported it?

Bre.... do you know what parish this school is located in? Too close for comfort.


Marshall.... the only thing I had to worry about in school were rumors of riots. Nothing ever happened, but seems they are carrying out the rumors in this day and age.

The school was in New Orleans, LA.

i posted the article on the top of this thread.

Here's another article on the shooting

Apr 14, 5:27 PM EDT

Gunman With AK-47 Kills La. H.S. Student

By MARY FOSTER
Associated Press Writer

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A gunman with an AK-47 rifle opened fire in a high school gym Monday, killing a 15-year-old boy and wounding three teenage girls in a spray of more than 30 bullets that sent students scrambling for cover.

Four suspects, ranging in age from 15 to 19, were arrested in a sweep of the neighborhood near John McDonogh High School. Police Chief Eddie Compass said he did not know if the suspects attended the school.

Students said the shooting was apparently gang related and may have been retaliation for a previous fight.

"They started shooting and I started running," said ninth-grader Garick Jacob, who was in the gym when the shooting began. "I was really scared."

The gunman managed to slip out of the gym and the suspects were arrested about three blocks away. Two were in a getaway vehicle and two others were in a nearby house in the Mid-City neighborhood, about a mile north of the French Quarter.

It was not immediately clear how the gun got through metal detectors and guards at the school. Students and school security officers said there was a hole in the fence near the gym.

School board member Elliot Willard said students told him that the boy was the target and the girls were accidental victims.

Charity hospital spokesman Jerry Romig said a 15-year-old girl had surgery because a bullet went through both her legs. The other injuries were not considered life-threatening.

Word of the shooting swept through the school where many students had radios and cell phones. In the computer class, students used their Internet terminals to read reports of the shooting.

Parents rushed to the school only to find their way blocked by the police lines. Darlene Claiborn said her daughter called her from inside a classroom on a cell phone.

"How can this happen in a school?" she demanded. "They have guards in there. They're supposed to have security."

Anthony Amato, school system superintendent who has been on the job only since February, tried to calm parents by saying that officers had swept through the school and that the students were safe. He was repeatedly interrupted by cries of "where was the guard?"

When Amato said parents could go inside to get their children, the crowd rushed forward and tried to squeeze through the school door in a chaotic crush of pushing and shoving.

Many were still outside four hours later. When a group of adults tried to slip under the police tape, they were shoved back by officers, setting off a round of shouts and complaints.

In another, unrelated campus shooting Monday, a gun went off in a Shreveport school - apparently accidentally - while one student was showing it to another, hitting the second boy in the stomach, police and school officials said. The student who brought the gun ran away; police were looking for him. The wounded student was in serious condition.

I heard as well. Best wishes to the kids and the families and friends of the dead student.

This is the first time I am hearing about it. How disturbing. These shootings are getting to be an epidemic it seems. There has got to be some way to deal with this 'cancer'.

thumper wrote:This is the first time I am hearing about it. How disturbing. These shootings are getting to be an epidemic it seems. There has got to be some way to deal with this 'cancer'.

Bring back Discipline! Many students are walking all over their teachers because they know the teachers can't fight back.

This is very sad. I hope the suspects who did it get in a LOT of trouble.