Deputy: 16-year-old dies in Tennessee school shooting
Knoxville police officer directs traffic at the Central High School campus in Knoxville, Tenn., on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 after a student was fatally shot in the school cafeteria. Another student was arrested minutes after the incident, which police say was not random. Their identities were not immediately released. (AP Photo/Lisa Norman-Hudson)
August 21, 2008
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A law enforcement official says a 16-year-old student has died after a shooting in a Knoxville, Tenn. high school cafeteria.
The shooting at Central High School was reported to police at about 8:10 Thursday morning. Police say they took a suspect into custody six minutes later near the school and recovered the gun.
Knoxville chief deputy Bill Roehl (ROHL) confirmed the student’s death.
The school was placed on lockdown after the shooting. School officials were preparing to release students one classroom at a time, then bus them to a church so they could be picked up by their parents.
