2 min readSparksOct 23, 2013 12:44 AM IST
First published on: Oct 23, 2013 at 12:44 AM IST
A student armed with a semi-automatic handgun killed a math teacher and critically wounded two classmates before killing himself at his Nevada middle school Monday,law enforcement officials said.
Witnesses described a chaotic scene at the school in the northwestern Nevada town of Sparks,just east of Reno near the California border,after gunfire erupted outside classrooms as students were arriving for the school day.
A kid started getting mad and he pulled out a gun and shoots my friend,one of my friends at least, a seventh-grade student identified as Andrew Thompson told local television station KOLO. And then he walked up to a teacher and pulled the trigger… Our vice-principal said go,go,go,get to safety,get to safety. So we left the teacher there and we went to safety.
The incident was the latest in a string of shooting rampages across the US in recent years,including one in December at a Connecticut school that killed 20 students.
The slain educator at Sparks Middle School was identified as 45-year-old Michael Landsberry.
The shooters identity was not released. Police said he was a 12-year-old student at the school.
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