Girl shoots 3 at Idaho middle school; teacher disarms her
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By Rebecca Boone, The Associated Press on May 6, 2021.
People embrace after a school shooting at Rigby Middle School in Rigby, Idaho on Thursday, May 6, 2021. Authorities say a shooting at the eastern Idaho middle school has injured two students and a custodian, and a male student has been taken into custody. (John Roark /The Idaho Post-Register via AP)
BOISE, Idaho – Authorities say 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.
Officials said at a news conference Thursday that the three are expected to survive their injuries. 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.
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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.
An active shooter entered Rigby Middle School in Idaho, Thursday morning
Three people were shot - two students and one adult janitor - and taken to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in non-critical condition
A female student was taken into custody and there is no longer an active threat
Initially, it was believed that a male student was taken into custody
Emotional parents and children were seen hugging as they were reunited at the nearby high school following the mass shooting
Over in Albuquerque a middle school was plunged into lockdown Thursday after a teacher mistakenly reported seeing a student carrying a gun into the building
Sixth-Grade Girl Behind Shooting of Three in Idaho School
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Earlier in the day, Rigby Middle School in Idaho saw a shooting that injured three, including two students and a school employee. None of the injuries are life-threatening.
The shooter in the gun incident at Idaho s Rigby Middle School is a sixth-grade girl, Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson revealed during a press conference on Thursday.
According to the sheriff, the girl retrieved a gun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds inside of the school and out , injuring three people. During the shooting a teacher disarmed the student, and detained her until law enforcement took her into custody, Anderson noted.