A 14-year-old boy pulled out a gun in a southwestern Ohio school cafeteria on Monday and opened fire, hitting two students, authorities said. After the shooting spree, the teenage gunman fled, only to be ultimately captured by a K-9 unit.
Two other Madison Local Schools students were injured in another way. None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, said Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones.
The shooter ran from the school, threw the gun down and ran into a field before he was caught by a K-9 unit, according to Journal-News. Jones said the 14-year-old was a student and there was a motive to the shooting which he did not identify.
Students were eating in the cafeteria when the shooting happened around 11:30 a.m., Jones said.
The students who were shot were 14 and 15 years old and were taken to a hospital, investigators said. It was unclear how the students who weren’t shot got hurt, Jones said.
“We don’t know if it was from the shooting or from exiting the school or because of the shrapnel from the bullets hitting into that small of an area,” Jones said.
Students who were in the cafeteria at the time said they didn’t immediately recognize the sounds as gunshots. Some students ran outside to a field before being brought back inside.
A sheriff’s deputy stationed in the school had just been in the cafeteria, Jones said.
All other students were safe, according to the school website. The school, which had practiced for such an event, immediately went into lockdown, said district spokeswoman A.J. Huff.
The district was dismissing students from the junior high and senior high schools as quickly as possible following the shooting. Authorities were releasing students in groups of two or three.
The campus is near Middletown, roughly 30 miles north of Cincinnati. State records show enrollment of about 250 junior high and 500 high school students.
The Butler County sheriff asked people to stay away from the school until the scene was cleared, and nearby roads were blocked.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
This story has some MAJOR holes in it. i hope there’s a follow-up to fill in the details that are sorely lacking here.
The “why” was not even speculated upon, nor were the relative sizes of the dead vs. the shooter; it’s possible that these 2 knuckleheads had been tormenting the 14-yr old ’til he couldn’t take it any more…but i’d really like to know what the shooter’s reasoning would be.
As to the headline, again, what it says and what the story reveals are 2 different things. The headline makes it sound like the K9 stopped the shooter or prevented him from shooting more people, when in truth, all it did was track the boy down in the woods. Lame. Inaccurate. Misleading. Unethical.
i’m sorry the 2 kids are wounded, and i’m glad that they’ll both survive – i’m also glad the shooter got caught. If it turns out that the shooter had been bullied, though, and both he and his parents had complained about it but school officials did nothing, then some heads should roll, with some major changes regarding how bullying incidents are handled in future.
So are you saying, if he was bullied then the shooting is understandable and we should punish those who didn’t stop it? Shooting people can never be excused in any manner because of bullying. Everyone is bullied at some point in their life, they have to learn to deal with it in a legal and proportionate manner.
Sad, but true !!
My guess as well. Some morons find great pleasure in bullying weaker victims…
Please explain which portion of which Constitution justifies the use of deadly force in any situation which includes not dealing with personal conflict, regardless of source, that doesn’t already include the imminent threat of serious bodily harm or death, Constitutionalist. This may well be a sensitive issue for you, perhaps because you were bullied, but that or some other issue is obviously clouding your judgement. And it was four kids who were wounded, two directly and two in ways not completely understood – shrapnel from rounds hitting elsewhere in close proximity being the initial assumption.
I live just north of where this incident occurred, so it’s being reported on with pretty much every news break. The perpetrator hasn’t said what his motive was, if any. It has been discovered that both the shooter and one of the attacked were on the Jr. High wrestling team. That’s pretty much all the info that has been made public. Are you suggesting that The Horn News not report anything until the full story is known? If that were the standard, the story wouldn’t have been reported at all or anywhere. I wouldn’t have a problem with that, but you can give up on the news business ever adopting that approach.
You are a concealed carry instructor’s worst nightmare – someone with an agenda who thinks it might be time to “get even” using deadly force and put any or all of the blame on someone else. We do our best to weed out such dangerous individuals from the community of armed citizens. Please, get some help.
I know for a fact that the kid shooter was NOT bullied in anyway. At this time, I still do not know the motive, but they interviewed 1 one of the kids shot, and another who was a wrestling team mate, and both said that the 2 wounded victims had been friends with the shooter and said he was a really nice kid and good wrestler. So, bullying was NOT the motive. It’s easy to speculate what might have happened before you know the facts. I thought the same thing when I first heard the story, as this is near where I live as well. But, a local TV station reported this morning what I just said, so we know that was not the motive. I am anxious to hear what the real motive is.
Sounds like the middle school in Lafayette, Indiana 7&8 grades. Just waiting for something to happen. Been in school more than some students. Constant bulling, fighting in and out of school. What is this country coming to?
Maybe, when we get some law and order back in this country, with Trump as President.
I was bullied by a much larger boy in Junior High a a little rural school. One morning as was his ritual he came up to me and hit me. My older sister about his age was near and came up behind him and hit him across the right ear with a hickory switch about 1/2″ in diameter, he hollered and took off but got hit every time my sister could reach him for about 150 feet. Then she informed him that if he picked on my again he could expect the same. That ended the bullying.
Relatives of what dead?
I do not me to be harsh to the writer but in the headline or byline the writer says K-9 dog. The term K-9 means dog… So the article starts out with a lead-in of dog dog takes down Ohio school shooter. What is wrong with America today can be seen in the writers at newspapers, on TV, in sports and everywhere. Lack of proper communication skills. Can da, ya thunk bout da mess we be in cause we ain’t got dem dar talk’in skills. When articles are written this way and the editors Don#t catch, well that sums up why we are in dis hear mess………. SHAMEFUL
Correction I do not mean should have been in place rather than I do not me. Proof reading is very IMPORTANT…
K-9 is an acronym referring to a police dog. CANINE refers to all dogs.
According to local news last night, motive unclear and wounds to students likely not life-threatening.
Give that K9 a pension, …. Milk Bones for life. Give that 14 year old life too !
Red Herring.
The dog did his job. No one else did.
To all that complained about my post, you have a point, and i apologize for giving the impression that i approve of shooting someone because you were bullied. But the kid is 14. His brain is nowhere NEAR mature, yet. Most men don’t even have fully-FORMED brains until they’re 25, and many women doubt that this EVER happens, IME.
And if they were all on the wrestling team, it’s also possible that there was sexual abuse, even rape, involved – which may be another reason that MSM and the student-shooter is keeping mum.
Before anyone gets their undies in an uproar, no, that doesn’t justify shooting anyone, either – but it would certainly make shooting the culprits an understandable crime, wouldn’t it?
i know that if i was held down and raped, i would CERTAINLY feel like shooting the bastard(s).