Eighth-grader armed with a pellet gun shot and killed by police

[accadacca]

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...ing/index.html

[BLUEberryBOB]

Good, one less assclown the world needs to worry about. If you're dumb enough to bring a gun to school and are willing to use it you should be gunned down.

Then again I guess there are a few cases where the kid has cried out about harassment or abuse and no one listens so

[Iceaxe]

Sounds like Darwin was cleaning out the shallow end of the gene pool....