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Home My WebLink About'Running, crying, screaming': 2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky high school shooting; suspect held - Ottawa Citizen - 01/23/2018 - Ottawa Citizen - 01/23/20181/24/2018 'Running, crying, screaming': 2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky high school shooting; suspect held I Ottawa Citizen 'Running, crying, screaming ': 2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky high school shooting; suspect held 4pASSOCIATED PRESS 11�ulblliished o rv: Jainuairy 23, 2018 1I ILast Updated: January 23, 2018:11:23 11�11M IEST °x✓ Ic' �' ,,✓I 1 fz'�,I d (I cH"f"f I"Ig U r lbl ( th""", coj,� I r(/ d, `f ;at;'i�iti Ll� '�I mi P { 1 II r th ,I t., l o 2033, II i I I t,lr" ICY, DOMINICO CAPORALI VIA AP http://ottawacitizen.com/news/world/governor-l-dead-many-wounded-in-kentucky-school-shooting/wcm/be75a3ce-7908-4500-89bO-d944a98ba7cc 1/8 1/24/2018 'Running, crying, screaming': 2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky high school shooting; suspect held I Ottawa Citizen BENTON, Ky. — Witnesses describe students running silently for their lives as a gunman opened fire in a Kentucky high school. Sixteen -year-old Alexandria Caporali says "no one screamed" during the Tuesday morning shooting at Marshall County High School in rural western Kentucky. Some of the children ran into classrooms to hide from the boy with the gun. Some ran out of the building, into the fields, across the streets, through the doors of nearby businesses. Parents desperately searched for their teenagers; business owners pulled fleeing youths to safety; a state trooper rushed to the school, terrified he would find his own daughter among the dead. A 15 -year-old male student has been arrested in the shooting, which killed two classmates. A dozen others suffered gunshot wounds, and five were injured in the scramble to get away. "He was determined. He knew what he was doing," said Alexandria Caporali, who grabbed her stunned friend and ran into a classroom as their classmates hit the floor. "It was one right after another — bang bang bang bang bang," she added. "You could see his arm jerking as he was pulling the trigger" http://ottawacitizen.com/news/world/governor-l-dead-many-wounded-in-kentucky-school-shooting/wcm/be75a3ce-7908-4500-89bO-d944a98ba7cc 2/8 1/24/2018 'Running, crying, screaming': 2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky high school shooting; suspect held I Ottawa Citizen e(",I-[� ! r l (..,le, r;'�L,tal U- r'a /��ll�� ,c �:r il,l�t/ brl�; r "f"�trt li'fl/:,I af�,hcl f� 0 r t�'�l,II ? 23, 20118, Iri <,y,/' j I,:,hli"It,: �r, ,� .� it.�ta'l,:�ll iCJ,Jr,;�'"a!,%,l was � RY a11.,,ca i Sul n /Ia A He kept firing, she said, until he ran out of ammunition and took off running, trying to get away. Police arrested their suspect moments later, leading him away in handcuffs to be charged with murder and attempted murder. Authorities did not identify the gunman responsible for the nation's first fatal school shooting of 2018, nor did they release any details about a motive. Kentucky State Police Lt. Michael Webb said detectives are looking into his home and background. "He was apprehended by the sheriff's department here on site, at the school, thankfully before any more lives could be taken," Webb said. Seventeen students were injured, 12 of them hit with bullets and five others hurt in the scramble as hundreds of students fled for their lives from Marshall County High School. Many jumped into cars, or ran across fields and down the highway, some not stopping until they reached a McDonald's restaurant more than a mile away. Parents left their cars on both sides of an adjacent road, desperately trying to find their teenagers. "No one screamed. It was almost completely silent as people just ran;" said Caporali, 16. She said most students knew what to do because they http://ottawacitizen.com/news/world/governor-l-dead-many-wounded-in-kentucky-school-shooting/wcm/be75a3ce-7908-4500-89bO-d944a98ba7cc 3/8 1/24/2018 'Running, crying, screaming': 2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky high school shooting; suspect held I Ottawa Citizen are drilled throughout the year on how to respond to an active shooter at school. t;^s' :"l tel lci fir," � � r,„f1nr l n l � l �,1ticr, .;,, l'i� ,,Ilei°��,II II J,xlt, 1.30 ler Iir'f 4"Y'/d,l ,,r,ltA 'a.,,ftiti�"Ilr�,r' ,l r�✓ ";111 tl�Yli I' i r, n /T f"A'utSt1,1,"i al., AJ ) The two fatalities were 15 years old: A girl died at the scene, and a boy died later at a hospital, Gov. Matt Bevin said, adding that all of the victims are believed to be students. Five young men, including three with gunshot wounds to head and one shot in chest, were flown about 120 miles (193 kilometres) to Nashville, Tennessee's Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The attack marked the year's first fatal school shooting, 23 days into 2018, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, which relies on media reports and other information. The anti -violence group Everytown for Gun Safety has counted at least 283 shootings at schools since 2013. The governor and several people in Benton said they couldn't believe a mass shooting would happen in their small, close-knit town. But many such shootings across the nation have happened in rural communities. http://ottawacitizen.com/news/world/governor-l-dead-many-wounded-in-kentucky-school-shooting/wcm/be75a3ce-7908-4500-89bO-d944a98ba7cc 4/8 1/24/2018 'Running, crying, screaming': 2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky high school shooting; suspect held I Ottawa Citizen Marshall County High School is about 30 minutes from Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky, where a 1997 mass shooting killed three and injured five. Michael Carneal, then 14, opened fire there about two years before the fatal attack at Columbine High School in Colorado, ushering in an era when mass school shootings have become much more common. ,I.11I f 1 trrlir Of I/fal ""'Ahk. d [00� I ,Ii "'y'' 3, 2()`18, ")eIIfghraIfsli/It,,,:gid flfrrn vfe.Irsh fl `Hgh Schook H ie ail"fott ,,,vere to l,l fr: irdf-ihIHe sd—,[ Jttl rt. Ist; pdcd/fel✓ r/ farrf Iy n ieil "i e i, Ift" 1 :,l ,, Iat 't„II [g (Shr pd fei I f!J �,1 fl f�� 1/24/2018 'Running, crying, screaming': 2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky high school shooting; suspect held I Ottawa Citizen school, where several hallways meet and students gather between classes. Lexie Waymon, 16, said she and a friend were talking about the next basketball game, makeup and eyelashes when gunshots pierced the air. "I blacked out. I couldn't move. I got up and I tried to run, but I fell. I heard someone hit the ground. It was so close to me," Waymon said. "I just heard it and then I just, everything was black for a good minute. Like, I could not see anything. I just froze and did not know what to do. Then I got up and I ran." Her friend, Baleigh Culp, told the AP in a text message that they were joking and laughing until they heard a loud bang that sounded like someone's books hitting the floor. "That's what i expected it to be, until i saw a body drop on the ground;" Culp wrote. "There was bullets flying everywhere. I ran straight out the door and headed to the highway as fast as i could." Waymon did not stop running either, not even when she called her mom to tell her what happened. She made it to the McDonald's, her chest hurting, struggling to breathe. "All I could keep thinking was, 'I can't believe this is happening. I cannot believe this is happening;" she said. It was chaotic outside the school as parents and students rushed around trying to find each other, said Dusty Kornbacher, who owns a nearby floral shop. "All the parking lots were full with parents and kids hugging each other and crying and nobody really knowing what was going on," she said. "They was running and crying and screaming," said Mitchell Garland, who provided shelter to between 50 and 100 students inside his nearby business. "Everyone is just scared. Just terrified for their kids," he added. "We're a small town and we know a lot of the kids" TRENDING STORIES 0 Mayor Jim Watsoi support cannabis http://ottawacitizen.com/news/world/governor-l-dead-many-wounded-in-kentucky-school-shooting/wcm/be75a3ce-7908-4500-89bO-d944a98ba7cc 6/8 1/24/2018 'Running, crying, screaming': 2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky high school shooting; suspect held I Ottawa Citizen 10 u, p,� „ .' ,'ilii HOVER FOR FLYER Comments HOVER FOR FLYER Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says he wont support... (Read IMoire < Previous HOVER FOR FLYER � CHATTERS We encourage all readers to share their views on our articles and blog posts. 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