Posted on 01/04/2012 1:40:07 PM PST by QT3.14
Police shot and killed an armed eighth-grader who "engaged" officers in the main hallway of his middle school on Wednesday, the South Texas school district said.
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This is a crying shame. Too many kids think that guns are like they see on TV and in the movies. They think that the good guys only get knicked in the shoulder and the guys your shooting at can’t shoot straight.
Guns are serious. Pointing a gun at a cop is deadly.
Hispanic or Latino of any race in Brownsville makes up 93.19% of the population.
I have a teenage son with some psychological issues. He’s also insanely smart (except when compared to the next son, the space-alien), so he’s in 10th/11th grade at 15, depending on the subject ... and doesn’t go to school, thank God. All kinds of things can trigger an explosion in a less-stable teenage boy, and certainly there’s no difficulty for a boy in Brownsville in getting a gun.
It’s a very sad situation all around, and I’m just glad nobody else was killed or injured. It’s common for the teenage boys who blow up to take out a perceived enemy or a girl who ignored or broke up with them, before they’re stopped.
How do you know he did not go back home and get the weapons and came back looking for payback??
According to one of those nearby, only 3 rounds were heard. The kid fired 3 rounds at the cop?
Feel bad for the officer, but if the 15 year old had a gun at school and pointed it at an officer, he's a target.
/johnny
Cummings Middle School is 98.7% Hispanic.
http://www.schooldigger.com/go/TX/schools/1168000648/school.aspx?entity=18
What are the odds it was a “gunwalker” gun?
I would guess the police fired 3 shots.
One boy said he heard police officers charge down the hallway and shout “put down the gun.” Then shots, three of them, most students said.
The officers shot and killed an eighth-grade student who pointed a handgun at them, Brownsville police detective J.J. Trevino told The Associated Press. The 15-year-old, whose name police and district officials didn’t immediately release, was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.
Investigators were trying to determine why the boy had the gun at school and whether he fired any shots, Trevino said.
http://www.krgv.com/news/brownsville-police-say-student-shot-when-he-refused-to-drop-weapon/
BROWNSVILLE - A Brownsville middle school student is dead after he was shot by police in the hallway of Cummings Middle School on Wednesday. Investigators say the 15-year-old boy was armed and they were forced to open fire.
Officers say the 15-year-old student was pointing the gun as he walked along the hallways. Students heard police tell him to put down the weapon several times. We’re told he refused and authorities fired three times, hitting the teen in the chest.
“Officers immediately responded,” says BISD spokesperson Dru Brown.
“We all heard the gunshots,” says Cummings Middle School student Leo Hinojosa.
The victim was taken to Valley Baptist Medical Center in critical condition. Authorities confirmed he died at the hospital at 9:15 Wednesday morning.
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It’s possible he came from Mexico (ie was not born here nor was he a citizen) fairly recently, with his parents, and thus was behind. I had students when I taught in TX (8+ years ago now) who had come over as older children and were woefully behind, plus didn’t speak English. Just a thought.
Yep, according to that, and other reports, the kid never fired his weapon.
In the late 1970s, the 13 year old son of LBJ’s former press secretary took a gun to his junior high school in Austin and fatally shot his English teacher in front of 30 students.
The shooter was sent to a high price psychiatric hospital until he was 16 and is now an attorney in Austin.
And this map shows the sorry state of the RGV, a vast swath of Obama supporters, illegals and looting EBT types. I've been there and the Mexican flag is flown in more places than either the American or Texas flags. The reality is that Brownsville, Harligen, McAllen, Laredo and El Paso are Mexico...not Texas.
No problem, the government will now install metal detectors, scanners, armed guards who will search and have the kids sniffed by dogs before entering public school property.
He was surrounded. They couldn't have tried something just a little more sophisticated that yell "drop it" and then blow him away?
Hell why risk anything at all? Why not just evacuate the school and call in an airstrike?
But let's drop the pretense of cops having anything other than military training or intent.
Gang initiation? Scaring others into giving him money?
Likely he got into the fight, left the school, and returned with the weapons with the intent of getting revenge.
- Johnny Cash
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