Madison school shooting,An Ohio eighth-grade apprentice opened blaze in a academy cafeteria Monday morning, cutting two acceptance and abasing two others afore he ran off and was arrested, badge said.
The cutting happened at Madison Junior/Senior Top Academy in Middletown about 11:30 a.m., moments afterwards a sheriff's agent stationed in the academy stepped out of the cafeteria, badge said.
Other acceptance were bistro in the cafeteria at the time, and admiral begin "a lot of trays" alone if they accustomed on scene, Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said in a columnist conference.
Authorities afterwards appear air-conditioned 911 calls, which captured the alarm acceptance acquainted as gunshots rang out.
“I’m at Madison Top School, there’s a shooting,” an asthmatic boy is heard on a 911 call. “A kid brought a gun and he started cutting people.”
Two acceptance — Cameron Smith, 15, and Cooper Caffrey, 14 — were shot, badge said. Two others — Brant Murray and Katherine Doucette, both 14 — were afflicted by shrapnel. Helicopters airlifted two of the victims to a hospital. All are accepted to survive, admiral said.
The battery was unexpected, the abashed emergency addition told a dispatcher.
“He just pulled out a gun and started shooting,” he said.
The doubtable shooter, 14-year-old James Austin Hancock, acclimated a .380 ability handgun, badge said. Afterwards the shooting, he alone the weapon, ran out of the academy and fled through adjacent fields until admiral tracked him down in a abounding breadth aural minutes.
Hancock faces adolescent accuse for now, but he will be answerable with abomination attempted murder, Jones said.
The prosecutors could ultimately adjudge to allegation the apprentice as an adult.
Terrified parents anchored to the academy afterwards acquirements of the shooting.
“The a lot of appalling affair is how to get to your accouchement fast enough,” said Stephanie Doucette, the mother of cutting victim Katherine Doucette.
“She’s still affectionate of shock that it happened,” Doucette told WLWT-TV. “She’s accepted these kids ... even the shooter.”
Police accept an "idea of a motive" but will not yet absolution it, Jones said. Badge would not say whether the cutting victims were targeted or not and authorities are alive to actuate area Hancock got the gun.
Hancock, who uses Austin as his aboriginal name, is on the academy angry team, as is Caffrey, one of the boy’s he is accused of shooting, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
“We were in fact appealing acceptable friends," adolescent wrestler Jordan Eslick told the newspaper. "It didn’t assume like annihilation was wrong. He got forth with everyone. I was absolutely abashed if I heard it was him.
“He’s absolute nice. He’s affable with everyone,” Eslick said. “Everyone on the angry aggregation is absolutely close, we’re in fact appealing abundant ancestors … we allotment aggregate with anniversary other.”
The cutting put Madison Top Academy and several adjacent schools beneath lockdown for added than an hour. The lockdowns concluded by 1 p.m. and the commune canceled classes for the day, eventually acceptance parents to aces up their children. About 250 inferior top acceptance and 500 top academy acceptance appear Madison, according to the district.
The cutting happened at Madison Junior/Senior Top Academy in Middletown about 11:30 a.m., moments afterwards a sheriff's agent stationed in the academy stepped out of the cafeteria, badge said.
Other acceptance were bistro in the cafeteria at the time, and admiral begin "a lot of trays" alone if they accustomed on scene, Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said in a columnist conference.
Authorities afterwards appear air-conditioned 911 calls, which captured the alarm acceptance acquainted as gunshots rang out.
“I’m at Madison Top School, there’s a shooting,” an asthmatic boy is heard on a 911 call. “A kid brought a gun and he started cutting people.”
Two acceptance — Cameron Smith, 15, and Cooper Caffrey, 14 — were shot, badge said. Two others — Brant Murray and Katherine Doucette, both 14 — were afflicted by shrapnel. Helicopters airlifted two of the victims to a hospital. All are accepted to survive, admiral said.
The battery was unexpected, the abashed emergency addition told a dispatcher.
“He just pulled out a gun and started shooting,” he said.
The doubtable shooter, 14-year-old James Austin Hancock, acclimated a .380 ability handgun, badge said. Afterwards the shooting, he alone the weapon, ran out of the academy and fled through adjacent fields until admiral tracked him down in a abounding breadth aural minutes.
Hancock faces adolescent accuse for now, but he will be answerable with abomination attempted murder, Jones said.
The prosecutors could ultimately adjudge to allegation the apprentice as an adult.
Terrified parents anchored to the academy afterwards acquirements of the shooting.
“The a lot of appalling affair is how to get to your accouchement fast enough,” said Stephanie Doucette, the mother of cutting victim Katherine Doucette.
“She’s still affectionate of shock that it happened,” Doucette told WLWT-TV. “She’s accepted these kids ... even the shooter.”
Police accept an "idea of a motive" but will not yet absolution it, Jones said. Badge would not say whether the cutting victims were targeted or not and authorities are alive to actuate area Hancock got the gun.
Hancock, who uses Austin as his aboriginal name, is on the academy angry team, as is Caffrey, one of the boy’s he is accused of shooting, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
“We were in fact appealing acceptable friends," adolescent wrestler Jordan Eslick told the newspaper. "It didn’t assume like annihilation was wrong. He got forth with everyone. I was absolutely abashed if I heard it was him.
“He’s absolute nice. He’s affable with everyone,” Eslick said. “Everyone on the angry aggregation is absolutely close, we’re in fact appealing abundant ancestors … we allotment aggregate with anniversary other.”
The cutting put Madison Top Academy and several adjacent schools beneath lockdown for added than an hour. The lockdowns concluded by 1 p.m. and the commune canceled classes for the day, eventually acceptance parents to aces up their children. About 250 inferior top acceptance and 500 top academy acceptance appear Madison, according to the district.
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