A 15 year old boy from Marinette high school held 23 of his fellow classmates hostage on Monday. Nobody knows what the reasoning was but some classmates believe he was having some emotional and academic issues. The boy left the class and came back this a bag of guns. He commanded everyone in the class to empty their pockets of cellphones, but let the teacher keep hers to contact the police outside. One of the people that was held hostage said he seemed like he didn't want to hurt anyone at all besides himself. He shot himself after the police came into the classroom. Nobody was hurt besides the gunman.
Most people who "shoot up" their school don't necessarily want to hurt all the people in their school. They are simply unhappy with the setting they are in. Many kids who have had trouble at school and have been bullied are most likely to lash out at other.
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/wisconsin-student-shoots-himself-hostages-freed/19737706
It's scary that something like this could happen anywhere.
ReplyDeleteI knew one of the kids on the news.
ReplyDeleteHe's really scared : /
its really sad that he was obviously depressed and had major problems and this is the way he chose to reach out to people. tisk tisk
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