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A sixth-grade girl pulled a handgun from a backpack at her eastern Idaho school on Thursday and opened fire, hitting two fellow students and a member of school staff and inflicting non-life-threatening injuries on them, officials said.
The girl was disarmed by a teacher at Rigby Middle School in Rigby, Idaho, a remote community about 270 miles (435 km) east of Boise, and held until law enforcement arrived, Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said. Her name and exact age weren’t immediately released. “She fired multiple rounds inside of the school and out,” Anderson said at a news conference. “We don’t have a lot of details of why.
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Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office vehicle outside Rigby Middle School during an investigation Thursday afternoon. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com
RIGBY – Krista Gneiting, the teacher identified by law enforcement as the person who confronted and disarmed the suspect during Thursday’s shooting at Rigby Middle School, told her father she felt there was an “angel on my shoulder that was telling me what to say and what to do.”
The incident began around 9:10 a.m. – less than an hour after classes began. During a press conference Thursday afternoon, Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said a female sixth-grade student pulled a handgun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds inside and outside the school.
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Three people an adult and two students were injured at Rigby Middle School, Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said. The victims were shot in their limbs and are expected to survive.
The rampage only stopped when a female teacher took the handgun from the shooter and held her until law enforcement apprehended her, Anderson said. The teacher has been identified in a community Facebook group, multiple GoFundMe campaigns and local media as Krista Gneiting, an eighth-grade math teacher.
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(Photo : Pixabay/Free-Photos) A female middle school student on Thursday brought and used a gun in Rigby, Idaho, according to officials. A teacher disarmed the student.
A female middle school student on Thursday gunned three people in Rigby, Idaho, according to officials. One adult and two students were wounded.
Sixth Grader Brings Gun to Idaho School
A custodian and two students were injured prior to being disarmed by a teacher. According to Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson, the female student took a handgun from her backpack and opened fire many rounds inside and outside Rigby Middle School.
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A girl reported to be 11 or 12 years old shot and wounded two other students and a member of staff at a school in the US state of Idaho, police said.
The unnamed pupil, who is in the sixth grade, brought a gun to Rigby Middle School in the city of the same name and opened fire.
The three victims are expected to survive, officials said.
A female teacher managed to disarm the girl and detained her until police took her into custody, authorities said.
The motive for the shooting is not yet clear.