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School shooting leaves one student dead, another injured
Updated: 09-24-2003 02:39:26 PM
COLD SPRING – One student is dead and another hospitalized aftera shooting inside a Minnesota high school.
The shooting happened around 11:35 a.m. inside of Rocori High School in Cold Spring during a physical education class. Authorities said one of the victims was shot in the school's gymnasium, and the other was shot in the weight room.
Physical education teacher Mark Johnson took the suspect into custody, the district said. According to authorities, the teacher talked the student into surrendering.
Cold Spring Police Chief Phil Jones confirmed that one of the injured students had died.
"The word 'tragedy' is used a lot, this is it," Jones said. "It really can't get any worse than this. We're a small community."
The Stearns County sheriff's department said it has recovered a small-caliber handgun from the scene
Eyewitness News has learned that one of the injured students was shot in the head, and the other was shot in the abdomen. It is not known which of the injured students had died.
The school went into what's called "code red" immediately after the shooting. Teachers closed and locked all doors and kept students inside their classrooms. One classroom, according to a source inside the school, also barricaded the door with bookshelves.
Later, the school was evacuated and students were sent home. The building, along with Rocori Middle School, closed at 1 p.m.
In addition to those two closings, all three elementary schools in the district closed at 2 p.m. This included Cold Spring, Richmond and John Clark schools.
The name for Rocori Area School District comes from the first two letters of each of the communities it serves -- Rockville, Cold Spring and Richmond. The district serves 26-hundred students in elementary, middle and high schools, and is located about 60 miles northwest of the Twin Cities.
Doug Gary of the Minnesota Department of Education said that, to the best of the department's records, there has never been a fatal shooting on school grounds in the state.
However, according to the National School Safety Center, there was a shooting death suicide at Middle River School in Middle River Minnesota in Frebruary 1993. In that incident, a 14 year old student shot himself in the head with a rifle he had brought to school
Gray said that there was one "serious incident" at Ricori High School during the 2001-2002 school year. That incident, he said, did not involve a gun.
Authorities from the state patrol, Cold Spring, Stearns County, Waite Park, St. Joseph and the state Department of Natural Resources all responded to the shooting.
School shooting leaves one student dead, another injured
Updated: 09-24-2003 02:39:26 PM
COLD SPRING – One student is dead and another hospitalized aftera shooting inside a Minnesota high school.
The shooting happened around 11:35 a.m. inside of Rocori High School in Cold Spring during a physical education class. Authorities said one of the victims was shot in the school's gymnasium, and the other was shot in the weight room.
Physical education teacher Mark Johnson took the suspect into custody, the district said. According to authorities, the teacher talked the student into surrendering.
Cold Spring Police Chief Phil Jones confirmed that one of the injured students had died.
"The word 'tragedy' is used a lot, this is it," Jones said. "It really can't get any worse than this. We're a small community."
The Stearns County sheriff's department said it has recovered a small-caliber handgun from the scene
Eyewitness News has learned that one of the injured students was shot in the head, and the other was shot in the abdomen. It is not known which of the injured students had died.
The school went into what's called "code red" immediately after the shooting. Teachers closed and locked all doors and kept students inside their classrooms. One classroom, according to a source inside the school, also barricaded the door with bookshelves.
Later, the school was evacuated and students were sent home. The building, along with Rocori Middle School, closed at 1 p.m.
In addition to those two closings, all three elementary schools in the district closed at 2 p.m. This included Cold Spring, Richmond and John Clark schools.
The name for Rocori Area School District comes from the first two letters of each of the communities it serves -- Rockville, Cold Spring and Richmond. The district serves 26-hundred students in elementary, middle and high schools, and is located about 60 miles northwest of the Twin Cities.
Doug Gary of the Minnesota Department of Education said that, to the best of the department's records, there has never been a fatal shooting on school grounds in the state.
However, according to the National School Safety Center, there was a shooting death suicide at Middle River School in Middle River Minnesota in Frebruary 1993. In that incident, a 14 year old student shot himself in the head with a rifle he had brought to school
Gray said that there was one "serious incident" at Ricori High School during the 2001-2002 school year. That incident, he said, did not involve a gun.
Authorities from the state patrol, Cold Spring, Stearns County, Waite Park, St. Joseph and the state Department of Natural Resources all responded to the shooting.
Happened in Central MN.
