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(Message started by: Carl_D on Sep 29^th, 2006, 2:20pm)

Title: ANOTHER School Shooting.
Post by Carl_D on Sep 29^th, 2006, 2:20pm

from Yahoo! news.

CAZENOVIA, Wis. - A ninth-grader shot his principal three times in a rural school just before classes were to start Friday, after a custodian wrested from the boy one of the two weapons he had carried into the building, the sheriff said. No one else was hurt.

The custodian took a shotgun from the 15-year-old before the student shot Weston Schools Principal John Klang with a handgun in the hallway near the school's main entrance, Sauk County Sheriff Randy Stammen said. The student was in custody, he said.

Klang was in critical condition when he was taken by helicopter from Reedsburg Area Medical Center to UW Hospitals in Madison, hospital spokespeople said.

Authorities did not know the student's motive and did not know if Klang was the intended target, Stammen said.

The student walked into the school about 8 a.m. and shot Klang three times as the principal approached and others tried to disarm the teenager, Stammen said.

Junior Timmy Donovan saw the student walk into the school with a shotgun.

"The janitor grabbed it away from him," Donovan said. "And as he was walking away he pulled a .22 pistol out of his pants, and then started shooting the principal. And at that point, I guess the principal ran and tackled him to the ground, and then he had other teachers going over and helping him."

Children from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade attend the small school near Cazenovia, a community of about 300 people about 60 miles northwest of Madison.

Sophomore Shelly Rupp said she heard five shots and ran out of the school, but turned around and saw Klang as he was shot.

"He was laying on the ground in the hallway," the 16-year-old said at a nearby gas station where students and townspeople gathered following the shooting. "He had just a pile of blood by his leg."

Rupp described the shooter as a freshman with few friends and said he was "just weird in the head."

"He always used to kid around about bringing things to school and hurting kids," she said.

Investigators were interviewing witnesses, but other high school students were brought into the elementary school gym to talk to counselors if they wanted, authorities said. Younger students were bused home.

The shooting took place two days after a gunman took six students hostage in a Colorado high school and killed one before shooting himself.

School officials said Klang has more than 20 years of experience with the district, beginning as a school board member, and described him as kind, compassionate and soft-spoken.

Rupp called Klang a good principal who always listened to his students. Resident Laurie Rhea, 42, said Klang had spent last weekend at the gas station washing cars for a homecoming fundraiser.

"It's horrible. All the kids just loved him," she said.

The shooting happened as the school was preparing for homecoming weekend. School officials said all homecoming activities, including a parade, a football game and dance, have been canceled or postponed.

What next? :-[

Title: Re: ANOTHER School Shooting.
Post by Kevin_M on Sep 29^th, 2006, 3:11pm

on 09/29/06 at 14:20:39, Carl_D wrote:

Junior Timmy Donovan saw the student walk into the school with a shotgun.

"The janitor grabbed it away from him," Donovan said. "And as he was walking away he pulled a .22 pistol out of his pants, and then started shooting the principal.

Sometimes the complete risks and dangers aren't assessed visually, until it makes its sudden appearance from under a coat, or from his pants like here. The janitor bravely derailed much, unfortunately, still fatally dangerous, not all.

Quote:

The student was in custody

This one's alive, maybe some "why" clues to this contagious mentality creating these tragedies.

Title: Re: ANOTHER School Shooting.
Post by chewy on Sep 29^th, 2006, 4:15pm

Had a shot gun ambush shooting yesterday at the High School in the town I work in.

Title: Re: ANOTHER School Shooting.
Post by Karla on Sep 29^th, 2006, 5:25pm

My school was a close town away from Weston. We always played them in sports. Its close to home on this one. I saw last week in the news where in Green Bay they busted up a group of 3 teenage boys that had bombs made, sawed off shotguns, tons of amunicion, granades, etc and where going to attack the school the next day. Fortunately a student got wind of this and reported it and they got surch warents and searched the houses and found the bombs and guns, etc. They are locked up tight now. What is this world comming to?

Title: Re: ANOTHER School Shooting.
Post by JeffB on Sep 29^th, 2006, 5:35pm

If you can't keep your guns locked up, get rid of them.

I hope the parents face charges on this one!

Title: Re: ANOTHER School Shooting.
Post by pattik on Sep 29^th, 2006, 6:04pm

I'm sorry to say that Klang, the principal, just passed away. :(

Title: Re: ANOTHER School Shooting.
Post by BMoneeTheMoneeMan on Sep 29^th, 2006, 8:03pm

on 09/29/06 at 17:35:42, JeffB wrote:

If you can't keep your guns locked up, get rid of them.

I hope the parents face charges on this one!

Bro, I kind of agree, but in a lot of states, a kid is allowed to have a shotgun or other types of hunting rifles.

This is unbelievably tragic. It sounded like this principle had respect and was well liked by the students. What a shame.

Title: Re: ANOTHER School Shooting.
Post by Yorky on Sep 29^th, 2006, 8:25pm

Posted by: Karla
What is this world comming to?

just about sums things up, doe's that statement!

Title: Re: ANOTHER School Shooting.
Post by Charlie on Sep 30^th, 2006, 6:19pm

Pretty awful.

It may not be all that relevant but I wonder about tv and the like. All the time kids see children portrayed as smarter than the adults. Ally McBeal and Six Feet Under are two of the worst examples of this. It must be unnerving for them when they discover that they know virtually zero about the real world and that it ain't like tv.

They need a Morgan Freeman type to sit on them and let them know that they have a long way to go.

Charlie

Title: Re: ANOTHER School Shooting.
Post by Carl_D on Sep 30^th, 2006, 7:18pm

on 09/29/06 at 18:04:51, pattik wrote:

I'm sorry to say that Klang, the principal, just passed away. :(

:'(

Title: Re: ANOTHER School Shooting.
Post by Karla on Sep 30^th, 2006, 8:18pm

I just talked to my mother and found out that the home comming game that got canceled was Weston against North Crawford. NC was my home school. I told you we played them in school. They had several hundred showed up at the stadium for a memorial service and prayers. It turns out the ganitor was walking down the hallway toward going out the front door. He just keept on walking and grabbed the shot gun from him and ran out the door with it. A teacher walked out of the principals office and saw another hand gun in the studants hand and dialed 911. The principal than ran out of his office and tackeled the student to get the gun away from him where he was shot 3 times head, leg, chest. But he got the gun away and the kid was takled by other students and restrained until the cops got there.

Another tragedy a student died in a car accident on the way into school that day. So they had a double memorial that night at the school.