Baltimore shooting on first day of school

[Renegade]

PERRY HALL, Md. (AP) — A student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes at a Baltimore County high school Monday and police said a suspect was quickly taken into custody.
County police said the wounded Perry Hall High School student was flown to a hospital. The 17-year-old male student was in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, a hospital spokeswoman said.
No one else was reported injured.
A male suspect was taken into custody after the shooting, police said. The suspect is a student, but police did not say where he attended school.
The school was evacuated, and students were being escorted to a nearby shopping center and middle school.
WJZ-TV showed video of a shirtless male with his hands behind his back being put into a police cruiser.
Perry Hall is a middle-class community along the Interstate 95 corridor, northeast of Baltimore city. The school is the largest in the county, with 2,200 students.
County Councilman David Marks, who lives next door to the school, said he had received dozens of phone calls and text messages from worried parents and residents.
"This is a very comfortable, very safe community, and it's an excellent high school," said Marks, who graduated from Perry Hall. "I think this is an aberration, but clearly one that is horrifying, particularly on the first day of school."
Television coverage showed scores of police cars surrounding the school and parked on neighborhood streets. A group of officers with weapons drawn staked out a corner of the building, one of them lying prone on the ground and appearing to cover a particular area of the campus. Hundreds of students streamed away from the school toward a nearby shopping center where they met their parents.
Two students who spoke with WBAL-TV described hearing a popping sound in the cafeteria and initially thinking someone was playing a prank. One student said she then saw the shooter with a gun near the vending machines and that a guidance counselor then got the suspect up against the machines and got the gun away from him. The students described some people running from the cafeteria, while others ducked under tables.


Looks like it's a trend these days so many shooting just recently the one by Empire state.

What can be done to prevent students and adults from getting guns and stop the senseless killings?

[Iwantone2]

:(

[Rangore]

That's pretty dang sad!

[Renegade]

Originally Posted by Iwantone2

:(

I know right..kids these days.

[CamaroSkooter]

Originally Posted by Renegade

One student said she then saw the shooter with a gun near the vending machines and that a guidance counselor then got the suspect up against the machines and got the gun away from him.

to that guidance counselor

[2010 SSRS]

that is very sad

[DayBreaker]

it seems like these shooting are becoming a weekly thing. sad.

[69supersport396]

I grew up in that neighborhood! Wow. :(

[SkyGunner]

Originally Posted by Renegade

PERRY HALL, Md. (AP) — A student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes at a Baltimore County high school Monday and police said a suspect was quickly taken into custody.
County police said the wounded Perry Hall High School student was flown to a hospital. The 17-year-old male student was in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, a hospital spokeswoman said.
No one else was reported injured.
A male suspect was taken into custody after the shooting, police said. The suspect is a student, but police did not say where he attended school.
The school was evacuated, and students were being escorted to a nearby shopping center and middle school.
WJZ-TV showed video of a shirtless male with his hands behind his back being put into a police cruiser.
Perry Hall is a middle-class community along the Interstate 95 corridor, northeast of Baltimore city. The school is the largest in the county, with 2,200 students.
County Councilman David Marks, who lives next door to the school, said he had received dozens of phone calls and text messages from worried parents and residents.
"This is a very comfortable, very safe community, and it's an excellent high school," said Marks, who graduated from Perry Hall. "I think this is an aberration, but clearly one that is horrifying, particularly on the first day of school."
Television coverage showed scores of police cars surrounding the school and parked on neighborhood streets. A group of officers with weapons drawn staked out a corner of the building, one of them lying prone on the ground and appearing to cover a particular area of the campus. Hundreds of students streamed away from the school toward a nearby shopping center where they met their parents.
Two students who spoke with WBAL-TV described hearing a popping sound in the cafeteria and initially thinking someone was playing a prank. One student said she then saw the shooter with a gun near the vending machines and that a guidance counselor then got the suspect up against the machines and got the gun away from him. The students described some people running from the cafeteria, while others ducked under tables.


Looks like it's a trend

these days so many shooting just recently the one by Empire state.

What can be done to prevent students and adults from getting guns and stop the senseless killings?

I think gun education should be a mandatory class in school. Make it a condition to be allowed to carry a firearm. Now is when I'm really going to catch it. I believe the same as one of the best S/F writers wrote. Make it legal for open carry. A lot of these incidents could have been stopped in their tracks, not by the teen-aged students, but teachers and principles. As Heinlein said" An armed society is a polite society".

[Maxspeed]

It's a good thing that the Federal Gun Free School Zone is in effect.

[camaroitalia]

I wish Baltimore was the way it used to be, school was one of the safest places you could be. Today its one of the scariest.

I hope the boy pulls through.

[swdsman]

Originally Posted by Renegade

What can be done to prevent students and adults from getting guns and stop the senseless killings?

Um... The criminals don't follow laws. Proper education and training in gun safety is the key. The problem is that people think they can't solve their differences unless they kill.

It's a real shame and I hope the kid pulls through.

[2010SS2SS]

Its called being a PARENT! and talking to your kids about things