Jolie Rouge
04-24-2003, 12:32 PM
April 24, 2003 Posted: 2:23 PM EDT (1823 GMT)
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RED LION, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- A 14-year-old student shot and fatally wounded his principal before killing himself in front of students in the school cafeteria, police and school officials said Thursday.
The shootings occurred at 7:34 a.m. at Red Lion Area Junior High School, southeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Principal Eugene Segro was pronounced dead at York Hospital.
"Whether [the principal] was targeted .... we don't know," said Red Lion Borough Police Chief Walt Hughes. "We're still looking into that."
The student was armed with several handguns, said Hughes, who did not identify the boy.
The handguns were not automatic weapons and it appears they were brought to the school in the student's book bag, he said.
York County Coroner Barry Bloss said the principal and student had one bullet wound each. The principal was shot with a.44 caliber handgun, and the student died from a .22 caliber handgun, he said.
No one else was hurt. Students from the junior high and a nearby high school and an elementary school were dismissed.
Larry Macaluso, Red Lion Area school superintendent, was asked about security at the school.
An ambulance carries the body of the boy who killed his school principal before taking his own life.
"Our schools are locked when students are in the building in the morning and anyone entering the building must be identified and then report to the office," Macaluso said. He said the school doesn't search students entering the building.
There are no metal detectors in the school, Macaluso said, and "we have not had any security checks of students up until this time."
"The school district is grieving the loss of our beloved junior high school principal, Dr. Segro, and the student involved," Macaluso said."We will continue to make plans to deal with the rest of our students, the staff and our parents and have them work through this."
Counseling sessions for students and informational meetings for parents were planned for later in the day, Macaluso said.
Myra Reichart with the Pennsylvania State Education Association -- the union that represents teachers at the school district -- said a crisis response team is being formed and will be sent to Red Lion. "We're always concerned when these kinds of things happen," she said.
The same school district was the site of a machete attack on a kindergarten class that wounded 11 children, the principal, and two teachers at Winterstown Elementary School in February 2001. William Michael Stankewicz pleaded guilty to attempted murder and other charges. He was allegedly upset about his divorce and allegations that he molested his stepdaughters.
www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/04/24/school.shooting/index.html
RED LION, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- A 14-year-old student shot and fatally wounded his principal before killing himself in front of students in the school cafeteria, police and school officials said Thursday.
The shootings occurred at 7:34 a.m. at Red Lion Area Junior High School, southeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Principal Eugene Segro was pronounced dead at York Hospital.
"Whether [the principal] was targeted .... we don't know," said Red Lion Borough Police Chief Walt Hughes. "We're still looking into that."
The student was armed with several handguns, said Hughes, who did not identify the boy.
The handguns were not automatic weapons and it appears they were brought to the school in the student's book bag, he said.
York County Coroner Barry Bloss said the principal and student had one bullet wound each. The principal was shot with a.44 caliber handgun, and the student died from a .22 caliber handgun, he said.
No one else was hurt. Students from the junior high and a nearby high school and an elementary school were dismissed.
Larry Macaluso, Red Lion Area school superintendent, was asked about security at the school.
An ambulance carries the body of the boy who killed his school principal before taking his own life.
"Our schools are locked when students are in the building in the morning and anyone entering the building must be identified and then report to the office," Macaluso said. He said the school doesn't search students entering the building.
There are no metal detectors in the school, Macaluso said, and "we have not had any security checks of students up until this time."
"The school district is grieving the loss of our beloved junior high school principal, Dr. Segro, and the student involved," Macaluso said."We will continue to make plans to deal with the rest of our students, the staff and our parents and have them work through this."
Counseling sessions for students and informational meetings for parents were planned for later in the day, Macaluso said.
Myra Reichart with the Pennsylvania State Education Association -- the union that represents teachers at the school district -- said a crisis response team is being formed and will be sent to Red Lion. "We're always concerned when these kinds of things happen," she said.
The same school district was the site of a machete attack on a kindergarten class that wounded 11 children, the principal, and two teachers at Winterstown Elementary School in February 2001. William Michael Stankewicz pleaded guilty to attempted murder and other charges. He was allegedly upset about his divorce and allegations that he molested his stepdaughters.