School Shooting in Pennsylvania
Student Shoots Principal, Kills Self
The Associated Press
Thursday, April 24, 2003; 10:20 AM
RED LION, Pa. - A student shot and critically wounded a principal at a junior high school Thursday morning and then killed himself, officials said.
The shooting happened at the Red Lion Area Junior High School, about 30 miles southeast of Harrisburg in south-central Pennsylvania.
Emergency officials responded to the school sometime before 8 a.m., said Patrick McFadden, the executive director of York County's Department of Emergency Services.
A spokeswoman at York Hospital referred calls to the county coroner. A call to the coroner was not immediately returned.
McFadden said he believed the student was a boy, but it wasn't immediately clear how old he was or what grade he was in.
Students from the school were moved across the street to Red Lion Area Senior High School, said Rebecca Garland, a volunteer working in the high school's main office Thursday.
A woman answering the telephone at the junior high school referred calls to the central district office. Calls to that office were not immediately answered.
The same school district was the site of a machete attack on a kindergarten class that injured a principal, two teachers and 11 of the 23 pupils in 2001. A Tennessee man angry about his divorce and allegations he had molested his stepdaughters pleaded guilty to the attack and was sentenced to 132 to 264 years in prison.
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