Idaho school shooting: Girl shoots 2 students, custodian, is disarmed by teacher
Updated May 06, 2021;
Posted May 06, 2021
People embrace outside the high school where people were evacuated after a shooting at the nearby Rigby Middle School earlier Thursday, May 6, 2021, in Rigby, Idaho. Authorities said that two students and a custodian were injured, and a male student has been taken into custody. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring)AP
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Boise, Idaho A sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, shot and wounded two students and a custodian and then was disarmed by a teacher Thursday, authorities said.
The three were shot in their extremities and were expected to survive, officials said at a news conference. Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson says the girl pulled a handgun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds inside and outside Rigby Middle School in the small city of Rigby, about 95 miles (145 kilometers) southwest of Yellowstone National Par
Sheriff: Girl shoots 3 at Idaho school; teacher disarms her
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BOISE, Idaho – A sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, shot and wounded two students and a custodian and then was disarmed by a teacher Thursday, authorities said.
The three were shot in their extremities and were expected to survive, officials said at a news conference. Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson says the girl pulled a handgun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds inside and outside Rigby Middle School in the small city of Rigby, about 95 miles (145 kilometres) southwest of Yellowstone National Park.
A female teacher disarmed the girl and held her until law enforcement arrived and took her into custody, authorities said, without giving other details. Authorities say they’re investigating the motive for the attack and where the girl got the gun.
Natalie Behring / AP
A police officer walks out of Rigby Middle School following a shooting there on May 6, 2021.
A sixth-grade girl shot two other students and an adult employee at a middle school in Rigby, Idaho, Thursday morning, officials said.
Just after 9 a.m., the girl pulled a handgun out of her backpack and fired multiple rounds in a hallway and outside the Rigby Middle School building, Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said. A teacher disarmed the student and detained her until law enforcement arrived and took her into custody.
The victims were transported to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in stable condition, a spokesperson for the Idaho Falls Fire Department told BuzzFeed News. All three suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were expected to recover, the hospital’s trauma medical director, Michael Lemon, told reporters.
A sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, in the US, and shot and wounded two students and a custodian and then was disarmed by a teacher, authorities said.
The three were shot in their extremities and were expected to survive, officials said at a news conference. Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson says the girl, believed to be aged 11 or 12, pulled a handgun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds inside and outside Rigby Middle School in the small city of Rigby, about 145km southwest of Yellowstone National Park.
A female teacher disarmed the girl and held her until law enforcement officers arrived and took her into custody, authorities said, without giving other details. Authorities say they re investigating the motive for the attack and where the girl got the gun.
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