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Omaha Steve

(102,519 posts)
Thu May 2, 2024, 09:41 PM May 2024

Middle school focuses on recovery as authorities investigate shooting of armed student

Source: AP

Updated 5:10 PM CDT, May 2, 2024

MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin authorities on Thursday promised a thorough investigation of the fatal police shooting of a student who they say was armed outside a middle school, as families in the community gathered to comfort one another.

Authorities did not release additional details on the inquiry being led by the Wisconsin Department of Justice and have not released the name of the student.

“When faced with a deadly threat, they responded with deadly force,” Mount Horeb Police Chief Doug Vierck wrote in a Facebook post asking for patience with the ongoing investigation. “No officers, students, or staff were injured other than the armed individual.”

Authorities previously said only that officers responded to the school after receiving a report of someone with a weapon. They still have not said whether the student fired a weapon, pointed one at police or what type of weapon he had.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-mount-horeb-police-student-shooting-ab4b43e01ff0c7866c78ac71e272c070

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Middle school focuses on recovery as authorities investigate shooting of armed student (Original Post) Omaha Steve May 2024 OP
a good friend is a former teacher there.... bahboo May 2024 #1
I lived there... 2naSalit May 2024 #2
We don't know much about the 14 year old male Kaleva May 2024 #3

bahboo

(16,757 posts)
1. a good friend is a former teacher there....
Thu May 2, 2024, 10:33 PM
May 2024

she says the teachers and staff are freaked the fuck out...not to mention the students. Mt. Horeb is a VERY quiet town, about a half hour from Madison. Crazy...

2naSalit

(90,961 posts)
2. I lived there...
Thu May 2, 2024, 11:07 PM
May 2024

In the mid 80s, it's about as quiet a little prairie town as ever there was.

Scary.

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