School shooting at Gardena High School, California; gunman still at large

[cowcommander]

Source: LA Times

Three people were shot at Gardena High School on Tuesday morning, according to police.

The shooting occurred at about 10:30 a.m. on the campus on the 1300 W. 182nd St. The condition of the victims was not known, and it's unclear what sparked the violence.

Lt. Steve Prendergast said officers were on the scene investigating what happen. The school was placed on lockdown.

It's unclear whether the victims or the suspect were students. The gunman is still at large.

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/01/3-shot-at-gardena-high-school-gunman-still-at-large.html

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[MinneapolisMatt]

2. K&R

Rec

[slackmaster]

3. Gang hit

:nuke:

[wordpix]

4. The former fistfights on campuses are now gunfights - we should have conflict resolution as required

school course

[EFerrari]

5. A shooting happened at my niece's high school last year.

Terrifying.

[northoftheborder]

6. CNN is reporting that this was an accidental discharge of a

gun which was brought into the school in a student's backpack. That's all I know.
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[Raschel]

8. We've come a long way from spitballs.

[RamboLiberal]

9. Update on USA Today

Update at 3:17 p.m. ET: Los Angeles police now say only two students, a boy and a girl, were wounded in the shooting, which they say was accidental.

The student taken into custody had a gun in his backpack and it discharged when he slammed it down on his desk, police say. School officials say one student suffered a serious head wound and the other a superficial graze wound from a single bullet.

KTLA-TV reports that Gardena High School does not have walk-through metal detectors but uses hand-held detectors instead.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/01/cnn-3-shot-at-californias-gardena-high-school-/1

[Iliyah]

13. ONLY?

What the F. How in the hell did he get past the metal detectors??

Sh*t you send your child to school, and this happens - UNACCEPTABLE.

[RamboLiberal]

15. Random checks

Authorities said they trying to determine whether metal detectors used randomly at Gardena High School should have revealed a gun that was reportedly brought onto campus by a student and that discharged during a morning class Tuesday, injuring two students.

Authorities said that campus officials are armed with “wands” that are used to determine whether students and other coming onto campus are armed with a weapon.

LAPD Sgt. George Sandoval said the security devices are used randomly, but frequently enough that many of the students are checked. He said the wands are used through L.A. Unified schools in Los Angeles.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/01/gardena-high-shooting-should-campus-metal-detectors-have-spotted-gun-.html

[Raschel]

7. I hate that lockdown stuff.

If it were my children I would tell them to get out any way that they can.

Usually SWAT sits outside behind cars with helmets and bulletproof gear on while teachers or students inside bleed to death.

I don't see a guaranteed safe outcome to being a sitting duck.

[montanto]

12. Nice.

If your kid "got out any way they could" and then got injured or killed your kid's teacher would lose his/her job, probably to never work in the profession again, be personally liable to lawsuit, while the school would also be liable for millions in lawsuits, etc., that we all have to pay for.

Great idea.

I've been in a lockdown or three. The safest place for your kid is in a locked classroom with his/her teacher, who is already committed to protecting that child from harm, rather than allowing them to run through a hail of bullets to climb over a 10 foot high chainlink fence in an attempt to "get away." Further, when you hear about this shooting on your kid's campus, you might want to call the school and have someone know where the kid is (his/her teacher for example). I can only imagine the scenario where the kid's parent calls me up in a panic and says "I know my child is in your 5th period class, how come you don't know where s/he is?"

[struggle4progress]

10. Suspect in Gardena High School shooting surrenders

January 18, 2011 | 12:01 pm

A student dressed in black surrendered to police in a dramatic end to a standoff after three fellow students were shot at Gardena High School.

TV footage showed students running out of a classroom where the alleged gunman was hiding. Police then handcuffed the student and took him away.

Some students were being moved to a secure location on campus, which remains on lockdown.

The shooting occurred about 10:30 a.m. on the campus at 1301 W. 182nd St. The alleged gunman apparently pulled the gun out of his backpack. Officials said the gun went off, with one bullet hitting several students, a source told The Times. One student was hit in the head, another in the neck. Their conditions were unknown ...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/01/suspect-in-gardena-high-school-shooting-surrenders-students-in-classroom-safe.html

[struggle4progress]

11. Gardena High School was scene of 2002 shooting

... In that incident, three students confronted a fellow student between classes outside a restroom and demanded money. When the student said he didn’t have any and turned to walk away, he was shot in the back. Another student, a bystander, was also shot ...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/01/gardena-high-school-was-scene-of-2002-shooting.html

[RamboLiberal]

14. Girl shot in Gardena High classroom fighting for her life

A 15-year-old girl who suffered a gunshot wound to the head at Gardena High School is undergoing surgery and is in critical condition at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

The boy who was shot in the neck is in serious condition but is not expected to require surgery, officials said.

Hospital Chief Medical Officer Gail Anderson said one bullet appears to have struck the boy's neck before traveling to the girl's head.

"You don't see it very often, but it does occur," Anderson said of a single bullet striking two people.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/01/girl-shot-in-gardena-classroom-fighting-for-her-life.html

[LanternWaste]

16. The only thing I'm surprised at

The only thing I'm surprised at is that I'm simply not surprised by the amount of real and imagined violence in our culture anymore.

[Richard D]

17. Two students shot at Los Angeles-area high school

Source: Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two 15-year-old students were wounded, one of them critically, by the same bullet at a Los Angeles area high school on Tuesday when a loaded gun went off in a classmate's backpack, authorities said.

A female who was struck in the head by a round from the gun was rushed to nearby Harbor UCLA Medical Center, where she underwent emergency surgery and was listed in critical condition.

The second student, a boy, was struck in the neck by the same bullet and taken to Harbor UCLA in serious but stable condition.

The student who owned the backpack fled after the gun discharged and was taken into custody in another classroom by officers responding to the scene, Los Angeles Unified School District Police Chief Steve Zipperman told reporters.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110118/ts_nm/us_usa_shooting_highschool

[jillan]

18. I'm just too sick for words by all these shootings.

[PSPS]

19. Again, the price we all apparently must pay to mollify the gun fetishists.

[hack89]

20. Fortunately you have never been safer your entire life

so at least the trend of violent crime is in the right direction and doesn't appear to be related to how many guns there are.

[AlbertCat]

23. I'll repeat that.

Again, the price we all apparently must pay to mollify the gun fetishists.

Again, the price we all apparently must pay to mollify the gun fetishists.


Again, the price we all apparently must pay to mollify the gun fetishists.




Again, the price we all apparently must pay to mollify the gun fetishists.

[Rage for Order]

21. Why are kids bringing guns to school in their backpacks

When I was in high school the only guns on campus were in the gun racks in the back windows of the pick up trucks in the school parking lot.

:shrug:

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

22. Aren't you glad anyone can get a gun?

After all, they're so safe. :mad:

[SoCalDem]

24. 3000 students per school is part of the larger problem

Too many kids fall through the cracks & can you even imagine how much time it would take for "airport-style" searches of that many kids every day?

A LOT of problems would be mitigated if we went back to smaller schools, where people actually had a chance to get to each other?