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01-05-2012, 06:18 AM
Check out CNN affiliate KRGV-TV for a local report on the shooting.
(CNN) -- A 15-year-old student was shot and killed by police after he brandished a weapon in the hallways of a south Texas middle school, officials said Wednesday.
"The student engaged the officers and was shot," the Brownsville Police Department said in a statement.
The weapon turned out to be a pellet gun, CNN affiliate KGBT reported.
But the weapon "certainly convinced the personnel on the scene of its potential threat to them," a Brownsville Police Department spokesman told the affiliate.
An ambulance was called, and it rushed the student to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to Israel Tapia, a spokesman for Cameron County Justice of the Peace Kip V. Johnson Hodge.
No other students or employees were injured.
School officials and students were sent to a nearby high school gymnasium for some time as authorities investigated the shooting.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/04/us/texas-shooting/index.html
(CNN) -- A 15-year-old student was shot and killed by police after he brandished a weapon in the hallways of a south Texas middle school, officials said Wednesday.
"The student engaged the officers and was shot," the Brownsville Police Department said in a statement.
The weapon turned out to be a pellet gun, CNN affiliate KGBT reported.
But the weapon "certainly convinced the personnel on the scene of its potential threat to them," a Brownsville Police Department spokesman told the affiliate.
An ambulance was called, and it rushed the student to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to Israel Tapia, a spokesman for Cameron County Justice of the Peace Kip V. Johnson Hodge.
No other students or employees were injured.
School officials and students were sent to a nearby high school gymnasium for some time as authorities investigated the shooting.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/04/us/texas-shooting/index.html