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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 24 January 2018
2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky school shooting

BENTON, Ky. (AP) — A
15-year-old student killed
two classmates and hit a
dozen others with gunfire
Tuesday, methodically fir-
ing a handgun inside a
crowded atrium at his rural
Kentucky high school.
"He was determined. He
knew what he was doing,"
said Alexandria Caporali,
who grabbed her stunned
friend and ran into a class-
room as their classmates hit
the floor.
"It was one right after an-
other -- bang bang bang
bang bang," she added.
"You could see his arm jerk-
ing as he was pulling the
trigger." Police led a teen-
ager away in handcuffs
minutes later, and said the
suspect will be charged Emergency crews respond to Marshall County High School after a fatal school shooting Tuesday,
with murder. Authorities did Jan. 23, 2018, in Benton, Ky. Authorities said a shooting suspect was in custody.
(Ryan Hermens/The Paducah Sun via AP)
not identify the gunman
responsible for the nation's dreds of students fled for running and tried to get 23 days into 2018, accord-
first fatal school shooting of their lives from Marshall away from the officers." ing to data compiled by
2018, nor did they release County High School. Many The two fatalities were 15 the Gun Violence Archive,
any details about a motive. jumped into cars or ran years old: A girl died at the which relies on media re-
Kentucky State Police Lt. down the highway, some scene, and a boy died lat- ports and other information.
Michael Webb said detec- not stopping until they er at a hospital, Gov. Matt The anti-violence group
tives are looking into his reached a McDonald's res- Bevin said, adding that all Everytown for Gun Safety
home and background. taurant more than a mile of the victims are believed has counted at least 283
"He was apprehended by away. Parents left their cars to be students. Five young shootings at schools since
the sheriff's department on both sides of an adja- men, including three with 2013. The governor as well
here on site, at the school, cent road, desperately try- gunshot wounds to head as several people in Benton
thankfully before any more ing to find their teenagers. and one shot in chest, were said they couldn't believe a
lives could be taken," "No one screamed. It was flown about 120 miles (193 mass shooting would hap-
Webb said. almost completely silent as kilometers) to Nashville, pen in their small, close-
Seventeen students were people just ran," said Ca- Tennessee's Vanderbilt Uni- knit town. But many such
injured, 12 of them hit with porali, 16. "He just ran out versity Medical Center. The shootings across the nation
bullets and five others hurt of ammo and couldn't do attack marked the year's have happened in rural
in the scramble as hun- anything else. He took off first fatal school shooting, communities.q

Texas teen charged in school cafeteria shooting

ITALY, Texas (AP) — A later in the day that she told The Associated Press she learned who the sus-
15-year-old girl who was was shot multiple times. that she was driving up pect was because she had
wounded in a Texas high The teenage boy who was to the cafeteria Monday complained about him at
school shooting is "in good arrested not long after the when she saw "the doors least twice to school of-
spirits," and the 16-year-old shooting Monday morn- fly open and everyone ficials, including to a vice
boy suspected of open- ing at the school south screaming and running principal.
ing fire in the cafeteria has of Dallas was meanwhile out of the building." She "This could have been
been charged as a juve- charged with two counts said she was angry when avoidable," she said. .q
nile with aggravated as- of aggravated assault with
sault, officials said Tuesday. a deadly weapon, the Ellis
School District superinten- County district attorney's
dent Lee Joffre told report- office announced Tuesday.
ers outside Italy High School A preliminary hearing in ju-
that he visited the girl at a venile court is scheduled
Dallas hospital. for Wednesday. He was
"It is an amazing demon- being held at a juvenile de-
stration of her strength that tention center.
she was able to survive Police have not released
this," he said of the girl, who the suspect's name and
authorities have not identi- Italy police Chief Michael
fied. Joffre did not provide Taylor did not respond to a
details about her condi- request for comment.
tion. He said in a statement Cassie Shook, a 17-year-old
released to the community junior at the school, earlier