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WE'RE ALL SCREWED!
this is so overwhelming........it's a wonder we haven't gotten our guns
confiscated already, but remember the first lesson in complete control
of a
country is "turn the people against what you yourself are against" I am
surprised we haven't lost all gun privileges due to these damn kids who
keep
killing people just to get in the news
Two Dead, Seven Critical in High School Shooting
By JEFF BARNARD
.c Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (May 21) - A day after being expelled for having a
gun, a
student allegedly returned to school and opened fire in the cafeteria
this
morning, killing two people and critically wounding seven others.
Police later
found the bodies of a man and a woman in the suspect's home.
Fifteen others also were hurt in the latest in a series of school
shootings
across the country.
Shots rang out at Thurston High School just before 8 a.m. in the
cafeteria,
where up to 400 people had gathered. Witnesses said they saw the
15-year-old
suspect, dressed in a cream-colored trench coat, run through the
cafeteria
firing his rifle from the hip. A student wrestler who had been shot
tackled
the boy and held him down until police arrived.
An hour and a half later, sheriff's deputies found the bodies of two
adults in
the boy's home in a rural area just outside this blue-collar suburb of
the
college town of Eugene that for years has been heavily dependent on the
logging industry.
Sheriff Jan Clements said the relationship of the victims was unknown,
and he
wouldn't say if they were related to the boy.
The suspect will be charged as an adult but is ineligible for the death
penalty because of his age, District Attorney Doug Harper said.
Police identified the suspect as Kipland P. Kinkel, who had been
arrested,
expelled and released to his parents' custody a day earlier on a charge
of
possession of a stolen firearm. They said he had been in trouble before
for
throwing rocks at cars from a highway overpass.
Several students said they knew him as freckle-faced freshman who
played on
the football team and had been expelled a day earlier for trying to
bring a
gun to school. Some said he once gave a talk in speech class about how
to
build a bomb.
''He always said that it would be fun to kill someone and do stuff like
that,'' said student Robbie Johnson. ''Yesterday, he told a couple of
people
he was probably going to do something stupid today and get back at the
people
who had expelled him.''
Police Capt. Jerry Smith said the boy parked his car outside the school
and
walked inside, carrying a .22-caliber rifle, a .22-caliber handgun and
a Glock
semiautomatic handgun.
Several students said they thought the shootings were a gag related to
student-body election day.
Stephanie Quimby, 16, said she was sitting one table away while the
shooter,
dressed in a cream-colored trench coat and hat, apparently focused on
one
table and drew his rifle from the hip.
''I thought it was fake. I had never heard a gun go off,'' Quimby said.
''It
was like a movie and you were there. I felt so calm. I knew it was real
when I
saw him point the gun at someone and heard a girl yell, 'Tressa!' I
knew she
wouldn't joke.''
Stacy Compton, 15, said she was sitting at a table when the guy came in
and
''started going bananas'' with the gun. She said she ducked under the
table
and her best friend got hit in the center of her forehead.
Wrestling coach Gary Bowden said there were between 300 and 400
students in
the cafeteria when gunfire erupted. He said one of his best wrestlers,
Jake
Ryker, despite being shot himself, tackled the shooter, got the gun
away from
him and held him down. Ryker was in critical condition with a wound to
his
belly.
''You don't make sense out of this. There is no sense to it,'' he said.
''I
think we ought to disarm. If this isn't a reason to, what is? I can
flunk a
kid and he can walk in and blow me away.''
''Any kid who takes a gun to school - why he isn't put under
observation for a
few weeks is beyond me.''
The school of 1,350 students was shut down immediately after the
shooting and
parents, many of them weeping and screaming, waited outside.
Of the 23 people injured, 19 were hit by gunfire and the rest were hurt
in the
panic to flee the cafeteria. Sacred Heart Medical Center had four
patients in
critical condition with gunshot wounds. Two were hospitalized in serious
condition. Three others were in critical condition and five in serious
condition at McKenzie Willamette Hospital.
Springfield is a city of 51,000 people about 110 miles south of
Portland.
In Washington, President Clinton expressed the nation's sympathy to the
victims and their families.
''I know that all Americans are heartbroken,'' Clinton said during a
Rose
Garden ceremony on NATO expansion. ''Our thoughts and prayers are with
the
families of the people who were killed and wounded, and with that
entire fine
community.''
The president also called the school's principal to express personal
condolences, White House spokesman Mike McCurry said.
It was the latest in a series of school shootings across the country.
Just 200 miles to the north, a 15-year-old boy carrying a gun got on his
school bus today in Onalaska, Wash., took his girlfriend off and then
went to
his home and shot himself in the head as her father tried to break down
the
door.
On Tuesday, a high school senior shot and killed a student in a school
parking
lot in Fayetteville Tenn., three days before they were to graduate,
apparently
because they had argued about a girl, authorities said.
On April 24, a 14-year-old boy opened fire at an eighth-grade
graduation dance
in Edinboro, Pa., killing a teacher and slightly wounding two students
and
another teacher.
On March 24, an 11-year-old boy and his 13-year-old friend opened fire
on
classmates in Jonesboro, Ark. Four pupils and a teacher were killed and
10
people wounded.
On Dec. 1, three students were killed and five others wounded while
they took
part in a prayer circle in a hallway at a high school in West Paducah,
Ky. A
14-year-old student, described as emotionally immature, was arrested.
On Oct. 1, a 16-year-old student in Pearl, Miss., killed his mother,
then went
to school and shot nine students, authorities said. Two of them died.
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