Student wounded in Arkansas junior high school shooting By Peter Martinez
Updated on: March 4, 2021 / 12:45 AM / CBS News
Editor s Note: The student who was wounded in Monday s shooting died Wednesday. Read the latest update here. Our original story appears below.
A 15-year-old boy was shot Monday morning at a junior high school in Arkansas. The suspected gunman, a fellow classmate who is also 15, was arrested a short time later, police said. The incident took place inside Watson Chapel Junior High School as students switched classes around 10 a.m., Pine Bluff Police Chief Kelvin Sergeant said.
Initial reports had said the victim had died from a gunshot wound, but police spokesman Lieutenant David DeFoor said Monday afternoon that the teen was alive and that bad information was released.
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