Saturday, February 18, 2012

N.H. Student Shoots Self in School Cafeteria


A Walpole, N.H., elementary school student shot and seriously wounded himself yesterday in a cafeteria full of his horrified classmates, officials said.

The 14-year-old boy shot himself around 11 a.m. in the Walpole Elementary School cafeteria, said Peter Heed, Cheshire County attorney....

The school went into lockdown immediately after the shooting. Students were interviewed and sent home after the school was secured, according to Heed....

Officials said yesterday that the town is a tightknit community where they would not expect anything like the tragic shooting to happen....

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