Most of you will hear about this sooner or later—it was on the front page of the CNN website tonight, so no doubt it will be on the evening news. So yes, that's our Milwee Middle School at which a student brandished a pellet gun that had been modified to look like a 9mm handgun. There was a brief hostage situation; the school was "locked down"; and the student isolated and later shot by the SWAT team, after which the remaining students were sent home. The gun-wielding student, who was labelled "suicidal," is currently in the hospital on life support.
Here's a local version of the story:
http://www.wftv.com/news/6056445/detail.html
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Update: Although the student's father apparently told the school the gun was not real, that did not happen until after the incident was over and he was already dead. For a fair analysis of the tragic situation, read this column by the Orlando Sentinel's Mike Thomas.
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on Saturday, January 21, 2006 at 10:23 am
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