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Boy shot at Arkansas junior high dies Wednesday, March 3, 2021 11:01 PM EST By The Associated Press, AP
PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) A 15-year-old boy who was shot at an Arkansas junior high school earlier this week has died. A Pine Bluff police spokesman says the boy, identified by his family and the Watson Chapel School District as Daylon Burnett, died Wednesday at a Little Rock hospital. A judge has set a $1 million bond for another 15-year-old boy accused of shooting his classmate Monday at Watson Chapel Junior High School in Pine Bluff, about 40 miles southeast of Little Rock. The boy was being held on a first-degree battery charge in the shooting.
US gun violence: 15-year-old boy dies after being shot at school in Arkansas
The boy, identified by his family and the Watson Chapel School District as Daylon Burnett, died after two days under intensive care at Arkansas Children s Hospital in Little Rock.
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PINE BLUFF: 15-year-old boy shot at an Arkansas junior high school earlier this week died Wednesday, officials said.
Lt. David DeFoor, Pine Bluff police spokesman, confirmed the death Wednesday night, citing the Pulaski County Coroner s Office in Little Rock.
A deputy at the coroner s office referred inquiries back to Pine Bluff police.
Boy, 15, dies in the hospital two days after being shot by classmate in hallway of Arkansas junior high school in targeted attack - as suspect is charged as adult with battery
Daylon Burnett, 15, died at Arkansas Children s Hospital at 5.35pm on Wednesday, two days after he was shot at his school
Burnett s classmate Thomas Quarles, 15, was arrested and charged as adult with first-degree battery; charge is now expected to be upgraded
Authorities said Burnett s shooting at Watson Chapel Junior High School in Pine Bluff on Monday was targeted, but no motive was given
Burnett was found shot in a hallway near school library; police arrested Quarles behind a house off campus