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Teen shot at US school dies
Los Angeles
February 14, 2008 02:56pm
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A 15-year-old student shot by a schoolmate earlier this week in a California high school has died from his wounds, local police said.
The victim, who was not identified, had been listed in critical condition after he was shot. He died in hospital, said a police spokesman in Oxnard, 100km northwest of Los Angeles.
The gunman, also a student from EO Green High School in Oxnard, was arrested after the shooting.
It was the fifth school shooting in the United States in a little more than a week.
On Monday, a 17-year-old shot a 19-year-old classmate in the Mitchell High School cafeteria, in Memphis, Tennessee, before casually handing the gun to a teacher and saying "it's over now".
The incident came a week after another Memphis student was shot in the leg by a classmate during algebra class in a dispute over rap lyrics.
Last Friday, a female student shot dead two other women before turning the gun on herself at a college in the southern state of Louisiana.
And on Thursday, a gunman opened fire at an Ohio school, wounding his estranged wife in front of her students before fleeing and later killing himself after a three-hour standoff.
He had earlier stabbed another woman believed to be one of his wife's friends prior to going to the school.
Also on Thursday, a suburban city council meeting in the Midwestern state of Missouri became a scene of carnage when an enraged gunman burst in and shot seven people, five of them fatally.
Until the United States has tougher gun controls, things like this will continue to happen. It seems to be such a regular thing in the US. Then again, Canada has a higher ratio of guns to people yet they don't seem to have the same problem as the US. Maybe the rate of psycological problems are far greater in the US than the rest of the world
Los Angeles
February 14, 2008 02:56pm
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A 15-year-old student shot by a schoolmate earlier this week in a California high school has died from his wounds, local police said.
The victim, who was not identified, had been listed in critical condition after he was shot. He died in hospital, said a police spokesman in Oxnard, 100km northwest of Los Angeles.
The gunman, also a student from EO Green High School in Oxnard, was arrested after the shooting.
It was the fifth school shooting in the United States in a little more than a week.
On Monday, a 17-year-old shot a 19-year-old classmate in the Mitchell High School cafeteria, in Memphis, Tennessee, before casually handing the gun to a teacher and saying "it's over now".
The incident came a week after another Memphis student was shot in the leg by a classmate during algebra class in a dispute over rap lyrics.
Last Friday, a female student shot dead two other women before turning the gun on herself at a college in the southern state of Louisiana.
And on Thursday, a gunman opened fire at an Ohio school, wounding his estranged wife in front of her students before fleeing and later killing himself after a three-hour standoff.
He had earlier stabbed another woman believed to be one of his wife's friends prior to going to the school.
Also on Thursday, a suburban city council meeting in the Midwestern state of Missouri became a scene of carnage when an enraged gunman burst in and shot seven people, five of them fatally.
Until the United States has tougher gun controls, things like this will continue to happen. It seems to be such a regular thing in the US. Then again, Canada has a higher ratio of guns to people yet they don't seem to have the same problem as the US. Maybe the rate of psycological problems are far greater in the US than the rest of the world
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