Suspect in custody after shots fired at Indiana middle school

[TurtleWA]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...red/index.html

“At least three people were injured after a shooting Friday at a middle school in Noblesville, Indiana, officials said.“

[Prowler]

Holy ****, middle school is what? 7th and 8th grade? That's awful.

How old was the shooter? Was he one of the students or an adult?

[TurtleWA]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Holy ****, middle school is what? 7th and 8th grade? That's awful.

How old was the shooter? Was he one of the students or an adult?

In some areas middle school is 11 year old up to 14 year old, 6th grade - 8th grade.

Article:

A suspect is in custody after what Indiana State Police spokesman Sgt. John Perrine earlier called an active shooter incident at Noblesville West Middle School.

Noblesville police Chief Kevin Jowitt told reporters that a teacher and a student were taken to hospitals with injuries. But hospital officials said at least three people, including one adult, were being treated. One student had an ankle fracture.

Jowitt said the shooting was reported shortly after 9 a.m. He said the situation was contained and that a male student was in custody.

"We believe he is the involved suspect," he said.
Jowitt said a secondary threat was received at Noblesvilles High School. He called it a "communicated threat."

The middle school was on lockdown part of the morning, said Jackie Chatteron, a receptionist for the school district.

Aerial news video showed rows of students being evacuated and escorted to school buses.
Students were being taken to Noblesville High, where parents can pick them up, the state police said.

June 1 is the last day of school, according to the school's website.
The shooting comes a week after 10 people were killed at a school in Santa Fe, Texas.

There have been 23 school shootings where someone was hurt or killed so far this year -- an average of more than one shooting a week.

Noblesville is about 25 miles northeast of Indianapolis.

[Prowler]

Oh I skimmed through the article and missed the "male student taken into custody" part, my bad.

It sucks this keeps on happening in USA. I used to think it was strictly due to your gun laws... but in Europe we also have countries like Switzerland, Finland and Serbia where a lot of people own guns and this kind of stuff does not seem to happen, so there's probably a deeper reason for this issue.

[AquaParade]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Oh I skimmed through the article and missed the "male student taken into custody" part, my bad.

It sucks this keeps on happening in USA. I used to think it was strictly due to your gun laws... but in Europe we also have countries like Switzerland, Finland and Serbia where a lot of people own guns and this kind of stuff does not seem to happen, so there's probably a deeper reason for this issue.

Yes, I think that's pretty astute. Every time you think you find an answer or solution, there's evidence of that one law or freedom working out just fine in another part of the world.

For instance, I'm pretty adamant that there needs to be greater gun control laws in the U.S., but just the other day, someone pointed out to me that Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the country, yet that is where the most homicides are at.
Now that reasoning could lean more towards the gang culture there, but it still doesn't support strong evidence for harsher gun laws in an argument.

So, perhaps it's an assortment of things leading to these tragedies. I'm starting to wonder if it mostly comes down to culture and mental illness.

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by AquaParade

For instance, I'm pretty adamant that there needs to be greater gun control laws in the U.S., but just the other day, someone pointed out to me that Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the country, yet that is where the most homicides are at.
Now that reasoning could lean more towards the gang culture there, but it still doesn't support strong evidence for harsher gun laws in an argument.

So, perhaps it's an assortment of things leading to these tragedies. I'm starting to wonder if it mostly comes down to culture and mental illness.

Chicago has the misfortune of being surrounded by areas with far more lax in the firearm regulation department. And why would those areas want to change their laws to match when there's money to be made.

Basically it's like saying vaccines don't work, because some people don't vaccinate their kids.

But I'm with you on the culture, but less so on the mental illness front.
Something needs to change, but...unless a way can be found that also makes money, those changes will never be implemented.

Originally Posted by TurtleWA

Yeah the U.S. leads the world in many categories. Some positive areas and some not worth boasting about. It would be interesting to see studies examining if one leading category effects the other. But then you’d find one paper stating something and another paper stating the opposite.

It's really hard to study this sort of thing with any accuracy, because there's no way to test a hypothesis. And without something to test, we can only make correlations.

[TurtleWA]

Originally Posted by Prowler

..so there's probably a deeper reason for this issue.

Yeah the U.S. leads the world in many categories. Some positive areas and some not worth boasting about. It would be interesting to see studies examining if one leading category effects the other. But then you’d find one paper stating something and another paper stating the opposite.