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Friday 2 February 2018
Girl arrested in LA school middle shooting believed to be 12
By AMANDA LEE MYERS wanted to run. I wanted do Mother Elizabeth Acevedo and her son Andres, 3, wait for news of her son Jose an eight-grader
Associated Press so many things.”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A girl Claudia Anzueto said her student at the Belmont High School in Los Angeles Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018.
believed to be 12 years 12-year-old son was crying
old opened fire Thursday when he called her from Associated Press
in a middle school class- a borrowed cellphone. He
room, critically wounding said he heard a gunshot USC Medical Center and and a 12-year-old girl were families.
one classmate and injur- in the next classroom and
ing three others, authorities knew the suspect. remained in intensive care grazed and were treated “We will attend to the needs
said. “Not safe, very insecure,”
Police arrested the girl and said Anzueto, who said during the afternoon but and released from the hos- of these students who wit-
recovered a gun after the there were no metal de-
shooting that happened tectors at the school. “I was doing well. pital. A 30-year-old woman nessed this very carefully,
just before 9 a.m. at Salva- fear for my son’s life. You
dor B. Castro Middle School know what I mean, you re- “This child was extreme- who was treated after the with the understanding this
near downtown, said Steve ally hear about things like
Zipperman, chief of the Los this in the news, and just ly lucky,” said Dr. Aaron shooting was not hospital- is very traumatic,” Zipper-
Angeles Unified School Dis- to hear that something like
trict police force. A possible that happened so close to Strumwasser, a trauma sur- ized and the nature of her man said. “We have our
motive was not identified home, it scared the life out
as the investigation was in of me.” geon. injury was not immediately school mental health folks
its early stages. The district has a policy
News footage showed a requiring every middle “The trajectory of the bullet known. that are here to support the
dark-haired girl in a sweat- and high school campus
shirt being led from the to conduct daily random did not hit any vital struc- The school’s campus was needs of the students.”
school in handcuffs as searches by metal-detec-
anxious parents and fam- tor wands at different hours tures that were an immedi- placed on lockdown but At the end of the school
ily members gathered on of the school day for stu-
a street corner, talking on dents in the sixth grade and ate threat to life.” most classes continued. day, children were escort-
their phones and awaiting up.
word about their children. Student Melanie Valencia, A 15-year-old girl with a The school has about 365 ed individually out of the
Diego Salinas had just 13, said the school did a
dropped his 12-year-old sis- random security search gunshot wound to the wrist students in grades 6-8 and school. Many were crying
ter at the school and was Thursday, but she’s never
stunned when she called been searched. was hospitalized in fair con- almost all are Hispanic and as they were embraced by
minutes later to say there “It’s crazy because I don’t
had been a shooting. know how she got the dition. An 11-year-old boy many are from low-income emotional parents.q
“There were so many things gun,” she said.
crossing my mind,” said Sa- The most seriously injured
linas, who was still shaking victim, a 15-year-old boy
hours later. “I wanted to shot in the head, was tak-
cry. I wanted to scream. I en to Los Angeles County-
Nassar girls have said they were apologized in private. had removed her under- sion of a PowerPoint pre-
assaulted in Michigan and “We were deceived. wear, forcibly cupped her sentation about the liga-
Continued from Page 3 elsewhere, some going We wish we had this one genitals with his hand and ment procedure, titled
back to the 1990s. back,” Hall said. rubbed her breasts — all “The Grand Junction.” The
Nassar, who also was a Hall and township Man- Meridian Township is next to without gloves. case was closed.
doctor for the U.S. wom- ager Frank Walsh reached Michigan State in the Lan- “She thought it was ‘weird’ Nassar presented officers
en’s Olympic gymnastics out to Randall-Gay weeks sing area. In the old police and it ‘freaked her out,’” with a “stack of medical
team, subsequently as- ago and paid for her to report released Wednes- the police report says. journals this high,” Walsh
saulted many more girls travel to Michigan to testify day, Randall-Gay and her Nassar told police he told reporters Thursday,
after 2004, penetrating as a victim at Nassar’s sen- mother told investigators applied pressure to the raising his arm. “He duped
them with his hands, ac- tencing. She said she cried that they had visited Nas- “perineum,” using a for- us.” Outside the Nassar
cording to authorities. He when she received their sar to discuss treatment for mal word for an area be- matter, the department
was sentenced last week call. The officer who had scoliosis, a curvature of the tween the legs, and said it now is taking a fresh look
to 40 to 175 years in prison handled her complaint, spine. He sent her to physi- was done to manipulate a at any sexual misconduct
and faces another long Sgt. Andrew McCready, cal therapy but saw her ligament, according to the complaints filed since 2000
sentence next week. again, this time alone. report. to determine if they were
At least 265 women and She told police that Nassar He provided a paper ver- handled properly. q
