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发帖数: 16594 | 1 AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A 14-year-old girl shot and wounded a fellow
student at Alpine High School in rural West Texas on Thursday and then died
of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Brewster County sheriff told
reporters.
The wounded girl, thought to be 16, was taken to a local hospital and is
expected to survive. No names have been released and no motive has been
given for the incident in the town of about 6,000 people, Sheriff Ronny
Dodson said.
The shooter is thought to have moved to Alpine, about 200 miles southeast of
El Paso, with her family about six months ago, Dodson said. The girl was
found dead in a bathroom and a pistol was recovered nearby.
"It's not supposed to happen here. It has got us all in shock. This is
Alpine. It is a peaceful place to live and come," Dodson said, adding, "it
could have been a lot worse."
The shootings prompted an evacuation of the high school and other schools
were put on lockdown. Video on local media showed students consoling each
other.
After the shooting, the sheriff's office received threats from a man to bomb
nearby Sul Ross State University and attack a hospital. Dodson said the
threats were not related to the shooting and saw them as sick pranks that
diverted resources at a time of crisis.
"Right now, we think we have some nut who in the midst of one of our most
emotional times at our school started calling in these threats," Dodson said.
One federal officer responding to the shooting was shot by accident by a
colleague, Dodson said, adding that person is in stable condition with
injuries that are not life-threatening.
"I'm not (used) to all this craziness that is going on in Alpine," wrote
Facebook user Anna Maria, whose profile lists Alpine as her residence.
The United States has long been plagued by shootings at schools and colleges
, some of which have claimed dozens of lives. The deadliest mass school
shooting was in 2007, when a gunman slaughtered 32 people at Virginia Tech
university. In 2012, a gunman shot dead 20 children and six educators at
Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
The deadliest attack on a U.S. high school occurred in Littleton, Colorado,
in 1999, when a pair of heavily armed teenagers shot dead 12 students and a
teacher at Columbine High School, wounding 20 others. |
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