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Saturday 5 March 2022
Police: Student shoots, wounds 2 at Kansas high school

By HEATHER HOLLING- concerned their daughter
SWORTH would have a panic attack
Associated Press but she didn't think that
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A stu- would happen because
dent shot and wounded an "the kids just expect this.
administrator and a school They hear about it all the
resource officer Friday at a time."
suburban Kansas City high "It's terrifying but at the
school, and the student same time I want to see
also was wounded when my child. That is the main
the officer returned fire, au- thing."
thorities said. Agents with the Bureau of
The male student at Olathe Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
East High School was taken and Explosives were on the
into custody, Olathe police scene to help with the in-
Sgt. Joel Yeldell said, and vestigation. No information
all three are expected to was immediately available
survive. No other students on the type of firearm used,
were injured, he said. Po- said John Ham, a spokes-
lice have not identified the man for the ATF in Kansas
suspect. City. He added that police
Yeldell said the school re- Students from Olathe East High school are led off busses to reunite with their parents Friday, March would release those details
source officer notified dis- 4, 2022, at Pioneer Trail Middle School in Olathe, Kan.,, after a shooting at the high school. when they are available.
patch over the radio just Associated Press Olathe Public Schools said
after 10:30 a.m. that he in a tweet that Olathe East
and an administrator had it sounds like that did his job ble condition. The third per- panic and imagine that High School, which has an
been shot and wounded so that's great news and son is in stable condition. there is a shooter in the enrollment of 1,900, was
by a student in the office. the injuries are expected to The statement said that all hallway and kids scream- put on lockdown after the
The resource officer said be survivable." of the families are request- ing but that wasn't what shooting.
he returned fire, accord- Yeldell said the student is ing privacy. happened thank God," she "Please know that law en-
ing to Yeldell, shooting and an adult. The county pros- Susan Burgett told The As- said while waiting to be re- forcement is on site and
wounding the student. ecutor's office declined to sociated Press she was united with her at the stag- the building is secured," the
Yeldell did not provide comment Friday on poten- panicked when she heard ing site. district said.
additional information on tial charges. about a shooting at the "That is just what we are Parents were being direct-
what prompted the shoot- Overland Park Regional school of her 16-year-old used to seeing. There are so ed to a nearby Family Vid-
ing. Medical Center said in a daughter, Emerson Burgett. many shootings all the time eo store and Frontier Park
"The good news is that no statement that one of the Her daughter texted imme- that it is such a sad reality to be reunited with their
students were injured," three people wounded is diately to tell her she was that this is what we have to children. Police asked par-
Yeldell said at a news con- in critical condition, and a safe. live with." ents and the public to stay
ference. "We have an SRO second is in critical but sta- "The first thought was to She said her husband was away from the school.q

California family 'appalled' by arrest in faked abduction

napping. a lie, authorities said Thurs- in a more appropriate
Sherri Papini, 39, of Red- day. She actually was with way."
ding, was "ambushed" in a former boyfriend in South- Papini and her husband,
front of her children Thurs- ern California, they said, Keith, have cooperated
day afternoon, according and beat herself up to sup- with investigators' requests,
to her family. She spent the port her fabrication. the family said, "despite re-
night in the Sacramento Her family's statement did peated attempts to unnec-
County jail awaiting her first not address the veracity of essarily pit them against
appearance on charges the charges but said the each other, empty threats
of mail fraud and lying to a family is "confused by sev- to publicly embarrass them
federal agent. eral aspects" of the counts. and other conduct that
Papini disappeared while They also criticized how she was less than professional."
jogging in 2016. She turned was taken into custody. Neither the publicist nor
up three weeks later, on "We love Sherri and are prosecutors knew whether
Thanksgiving Day, along- appalled by the way in she had an attorney to rep-
side a highway about which law enforcement resent her.
150 miles (241 kilometers) ambushed her (Thursday) The FBI and U.S. attorney's
In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, a "missing" sign for Mountain from her home. She had a afternoon in a dramatic office in Sacramento de-
Gate, Calif., resident Sherri Papini, is seen along Sunrise Drive, "brand" on her right shoul- and unnecessary manner clined to comment, while
near the location where the mom of two is believed to have
gone missing while on an afternoon jog. der along with burns and in front of her children," the the Shasta County Sheriff's
Associated Press bruises. family said in the statement Office did not immediately
She described in great de- released through a publi- comment but previously
By DON THOMPSON trigged an intensive search tail to police her abduction cist. said it would have noth-
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) and international headlines at gunpoint and abusive She would have come to ing more to say now that
— The family of a Northern on Friday criticized the way treatment by two "Hispanic the police station if asked, charges have been filed.
California woman whose she was arrested on charg- women," triggering a hunt the family said, "where this All three agencies investi-
2016 disappearance es she faked her own kid- for her abductors. It was all could have been handled gated the case.q