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| Quote: | Student Kills Assistant Principal, Wounds Two Others in Tennessee High School Shooting
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
JACKSBORO, Tenn. � A teenager shot and killed an assistant principal and seriously wounded two other administrators at a high school on Tuesday, officials said. The student was arrested.
"I don't know what he was thinking or what his motives were," Sheriff Ron McClellan said.
Campbell County High School Assistant Principal Ken Bruce was shot in the chest just after 2 p.m. and died soon after at a hospital, law enforcement and school officials said.
The suspect was grazed in the hand by a bullet fired from his own .22-caliber handgun during a scuffle with the administrators and an unidentified teacher who helped wrestle the gun away, the sheriff said.
No other students were injured.
Principal Gary Seale was shot in the lower abdomen, and Assistant Principal Jim Pierce was shot in the chest. Seale was in serious condition and Pierce in critical condition at University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, spokeswoman Lisa McNeal said.
School will be closed the rest of the week, and counselors will be available to help students and teachers on Monday, schools director Judy Blevins said.
"This situation could have gotten much worse. It did not because our staff followed the (emergency) plan in place," said Mark Wells, vice chairman of the Campbell County Board of Education.
Authorities were unsure if the suspect would be charged as a juvenile or an adult. He was being held in a juvenile detention facility in nearby Scott County.
The 1,400-student school, located about 30 miles northwest of Knoxville, was locked down after the shooting. Students said Seale was able to get to the school intercom and order the lockdown after being shot.
"Knowing him, he probably did," the sheriff said. "He is a tough fellow and a great individual. That sounds like him. Whoever did it, he did the right thing."
Clifford Kohlmeyer, a former assistant principal at the school, said the three victims were dedicated educators and family men. Both Seale and Pierce have been educators more than 30 years, he said.
"Mr. Bruce, the one who got killed, had been a lieutenant colonel in the Army and came back to teach about eight years ago," Kohlmeyer said. "We shared an office for two years. He was very dedicated to the students."
Pierce was a longtime physical education teacher and cross country team coach before moving into administration, Kohlmeyer said.
All three men have children, he said.
The incident caused a huge traffic jam at the school as bus drivers and parent rushed to remove students from the campus closed by police to the public.
"It is scary, it is terrifying," said Darren Davidson, waiting for his son Justin to come through the school's gates. "I thought I would have a heart attack before I got here," added his wife, Kizzie Davidson.
Roger Wallace, a driver at a pizza restaurant near the school, said he saw the students being evacuated from the high school and loaded onto buses.
"They are searching each student as they are getting on the buses," he said.
Tuesday's shooting is the second fatal shooting of a school employee in Tennessee this year.
Stewart County school bus driver Joyce Gregory, 47, was killed as she stopped to pick up a student on her route on March 1. Jason Clinard, 15, is charged with murder in the case and will be tried as an adult.
In August a boy was accidentally shot in the leg in a middle school restroom in Jefferson County. The investigation into that incident led police to charge two students in a plot to kill a teacher at Maury Middle School.
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So sad. It's so much like another Columbine. Thank goodness so fewer people died this time around, though.
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| Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:06 am |
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The same thing happened in Taber alberta a few years ago. I really dont know what posesses kids to do things like this. It makes it really scary to send our kids off to school when you hear stuff like this 
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Wow  wow wow wow and I mean wow.....needless to say I'm really not that surprised.
This is totally and absolutely appalling and tragic. I'm speechless.
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| Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:21 pm |
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Kids who are usually considered loners are usually picked on. That can lead to violence.
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Why do people do this sorta stuff (rhetorical question). Do people find pleasure in doing this. I don't know where but I have heard of the school before.... Anyway, it's sad that people do this, I don't like it one bit!
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I totally agree! Have you read the book Rachel's Tears? Such a sad book but a good one at the same time.
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| Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:35 pm |
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Actually, that was me who did that quote, and I live in Colorado. I haven't read that book, and nor was I here during the Columbine massacre. But being in Colorado, there are a lot of references to it. But yeah, it's frightening.
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| Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:39 pm |
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Sorry mate. I edited it just for you
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Ya I agree that being bullied has alot to do with why some kids turn violent.
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Any School shooting brings back memories of this...
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Town tries to cope with school shooting
PEARL, Miss. (AP) - Stan Harrell swears he'll never fuss at his daughter, 16-year-old Kelly, for being late to school again. If she had been on time on Wednesday, Oct. 1, she would have been in the line of fire when the shooting started.
This past Thursday night, Stan overheard his daughter in her room. Like many in this largely Baptist community of 22,000 people, she was praying.
What folks here are wondering now is just who some of the other kids in town may have been praying to.
In the aftermath of the killings and arrests, there is dark talk of a satanic cult, of a clique of misfit teens who dressed in black and called themselves "The Group." Prosecutors and civic leaders seem to think there may be something to it.
Bordering the city of Jackson, Pearl is a peaceful-looking town of red-brick, one-story ranch houses, most with flower gardens out front and welcome signs on the small front porches where people sit after dinner. The houses line narrow streets lush with large oaks and willow trees. On the outskirts, beyond clusters of rusting house trailers, 8-year-old Pearl High School sprawls across a pristine campus of manicured lawns and athletic fields.
Last Friday, police found a sheet of scorched paper, it edges burned to form a jagged edge, taped to the school wall next to the main entrance. On it, someone has drawn a skull and crossbones and an Iron Cross, and written the words: "Luke is God. From your friends at Pearl High School."
Luke would be Luke Woodham, the 16-year-old who is charged with slashing his mother to death with a butcher knife and then opening fire on his classmates with a rifle. He is accused of killing Lydia Dew, 17, and his former girlfriend, Christina Menefee, and wounding seven other students, leaving them bleeding on the polished floor of the school cafeteria.
Roy Balentine, the principal, dashed out of his office when he heard the first shots.
"I ran out to see if something possibly malfunctioned," he said. "I was hoping that's what it was, but I knew it sounded like gunshots."
He saw Woodham, about 15 or 20 feet away, wearing a big, blue coat and holding a rifle. Balentine dangled both arms to show how Woodham held the rifle low out in front of him.
Fearing Woodham would come for him next, Balentine ran to his office to call the police. As he dialed, more shots rang out. More students fell.
Minutes later, Assistant Principal Joel Myrick chased Woodham down outside the school, held him at bay with a .45-caliber automatic pistol he kept in his truck in the school parking lot. He forced Woodham to the ground and put his foot on the youth's neck.
"I think he's a coward," Myrick said. "I had my weapon pointed at his face, and he didn't want to die."
It seemed an open-and-shut case - a single young gunman.
But then, a week later, six other teens, described as Woodham's friends, were taken to jail on charges that they had conspired to murder Pearl High School students and some of their parents.
There had been whispers that some kids in town may have been toying with the occult. In the aftermath, townspeople have latched onto the rumors as an explanation for the seemingly unexplainable.
"On the street, they're talking about some devil cults, and I'm sure there's good reason for that," said Mayor Jimmie Foster, whose son was allegedly targeted by Woodham, but was late for school that day.
Foster, a former Pearl police officer, said that during the years, there have been scattered signs of cult activity in town. "Cult signs, maybe a couple of pets missing, but we never found the carcasses," he said.
The Rev. Martin Ruane, whose St. Jude's Catholic Church is just a few homes away from where Luke Woodham's rampage began, said he counseled a local teen-ager last year because he had "some involvement in this devil-type thing." But he said he doubts that 17-year-old Wesley Brownell, a parishioner who was among those arrested and charged with conspiracy to murder, was involved in such things.
Delbert Shaw, whose son Delbert, 18, was among those arrested, asserted that "some of the boys were in a cult" and that "they tried to recruit my son."
"But my son hasn't done anything," he said. "He wasn't in a cult and that's all I have to say."
Prosecutor John Kitchens, Rankin County's district attorney, his investigation "has led us to believe that there is satanic activity occurring in this county."
He said he has not ruled out the idea that the youths arrested this month are involved.
Ed Rainer, attorney for one of the youths, Grant Boyette, 18, of nearby Brandon, called the demonic rumors nonsense. But the talk is everywhere. |
I knew most of those people.... including Lydia Dew...
Any school shooting brings memories of being in class learning that our brothers sisters and all were in danger... thanks to Luke Woodham, a boy who happened to ride my bus.
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