Middle School Student Shot by SWAT Team

LONGWOOD, Fla. - A suicidal eighth grader who pulled a handgun in class and forced another child into a closet was shot by a sheriff's SWAT team member Friday when he later threatened deputies, Seminole County officials said.

Sheriff Don Eslinger said the 15-year-old boy brought the gun to Milwee Middle School in his backpack. Eslinger said two students saw it and one persuaded the other to report it, causing a scuffle.

The alleged gunman told one of the students to go into a closet, ran from the classroom and "traveled with this firearm throughout the campus," Eslinger said. Deputies eventually isolated him in a restroom, and the school was evacuated.

"At one time he held the gun to his neck. As the deputies attempted to establish dialogue, he raised the firearm and lethal force was used by the sheriff's office," Eslinger said.

The boy was taken to the hospital. His condition was unknown.

"He was suicidal," Eslinger said. "During this standoff, and during the chase, the student said he was going to kill himself or die."

No one else was injured. Officials with the sheriff's office said they had not confirmed whether the gun the boy had was real or a toy.

Classes were canceled for the rest of the day, and frantic parents arrived to pick up their children.

"When I saw the news, I just couldn't believe this was my daughter's school. I came right away," said Anil Santos, whose daughter, Aleister, is in eighth grade.

Sarah Tivy, 12, said some students were frightened, but she appeared calm.

"I just figured that if someone is going to bring a gun to school, then they need to be taken out of school," she said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060113/...hool_evacuated

Thought I'd post this before SOMEONE got their lil' twist of the mean ol' cops taking away this poor lil' bastards rights to carry a weapon into school and threaten classmates. I wonder what dumb son of a bitch would do that?? :thumbsup:

Sooo are you for gun-control--I was reading a post on another website and this dude try to explain it was the guns fault that the boy was confused(I wish i saved that post).....LoL---Its a shame that people can make guns the enemy but really its the person action that caused it......

Thank goodness for home school. That's how my kid will get educated. :thumbsup:

You think the cops will ever reveal the truth about the kid's gun - maybe it was a fake? No matter, it's the kid's fault for even pretending to have a real gun if that's the case. It's never the gun's fault. However, was it necessary to use "lethal force"??? :confused:

They were really psyched. Finally, some action! They put on their costumes, shout commands at each other and load their guns. So what if the target ends up being a kid? They wanted to shoot someone and they had a legal way to kill them. Morals be damned. This is entertainment, SWAT style :mad:

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Sooo are you for gun-control--I was reading a post on another website and this dude try to explain it was the guns fault that the boy was confused(I wish i saved that post).....LoL---Its a shame that people can make guns the enemy but really its the person action that caused it......

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I'm not for gun control unless your talking about some lil' dumb ass taking into a school system. To bad for him and I guess his buddies learned a hard lesson in life because of it! Oh well, to bad so sad! :cool:

What a coincidence, the first place I ever smoked weed was in Longwood Fl

The cops were 100% right. A 15yo kid with a gun is just as dangerous as a 30 yo with a gun. WTF is a 15yo doing in the 8th grade anyway. Shit, I was a junior in high school by the time I was 15. At least no one can use the "he was an exemplary student, why'd they shoot him" sob story for this one. I can't wait to hear Pissy's comments on this one :p

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I'm not for gun control unless your talking about some lil' dumb ass taking into a school system. To bad for him and I guess his buddies learned a hard lesson in life because of it! Oh well, to bad so sad! :cool:

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Too bad so sad is right man, he should of known better then to bring a gun to school we all know thats a big fuking no no----Im just getting tired of people saying we need to have gun-control or ban guns when ever some shit like this happens, I always hear it everytime, it never fails......

Guns are bad--drugs are bad... just the headlines i've have read today from websites that were talking about this....

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LOL...reminded me of south park. :stoned:

You guys are conspiracy theory nuts..well some of you.. They have already admitted it was a BB Gun, and he got his ass shot after he pointed it at the Police. It appears to be a attempted Suicide by Cop since he was telling classmates he wanted to die, and was Poiting the BBGun at his throat before turning it on SWAT members.

5 bucks its a black kid too. And yes..Drugs are bad...( =

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/US/01/13.../story.gun.jpg

^^the Gun used

And about the 15 year old being in 8th grade, You gota remember. This is Florida we are talking about. The same state that wanted to lower the Passing Grade for Blacks/Latinos to 45, because they said the current testing is Biased towards Whites and unfair to Minorities.