Posted on 11/08/2005 2:59:47 PM PST by girlangler
Shooting victims being transported to UT Medical Center
Ambulance rushing to scene
One school adminstrator was killed and two were seriously wounded in a shooting at Campbell County High School in Jacksboro Tuesday afternoon.
Shots were fired inside the principal's office. Killed was Assistant Principal Ken Bruce, who died at St. Mary's Medical Center in LaFollette. Injured were Principal Gary Seale and Assistant Principal Jim Pierce.Advertisement
Principal Seale is listed as serious condition at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. Jim Pierce is listed in critical condition and undergoing surgery at UT.
According to the Associated Press, Seale was injured while trying to subdue the juvenile suspect.
"These men are all fine Christian men and I am at a loss for words," Campbell County Sheriff Ron McClellan told 10 News.
The juvenile suspect is reported to be at St. Mary's Medical Center in LaFollette being treated for a hand injury.
The school was placed on lockdown after the shooting but students were released shortly after 3:00 p.m.
Campbell County authorities will hold a press conference to discuss the shootings at 6:00 p.m. at the Board of Education.
A prayer service for the victims is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. at Horizon Baptist Church in Campbell County.
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These school deaths are just too much...When is the government going to pull it's people out of public education?
Not in NC. And you have to be twenty-one (21) years old. The parents should be considered co-conspirators, but, then again, I'm not a lawyer.
HangnJudge,
The guy who died was from Anderson County, where you live.
Thanks....I am being told that its legal to carry a concealed gun to school in some states.
Personally, that statement sounds like a blanket statement that encompasses even law enforcement....but I would be interested to hear if there is any.
I am so sorry to hear that you knew the man who was killed. Prayers for all of his family and friends.
He was a Principal, with a lot of principle.
That looks like blood on his shirt and he looks proud of himself. How sad. I will never understand it, ever. Just what did he accomplish besides ruining his life and the life of so many?
I don't think that I have ever been angry enough to kill someone or something and I have been pretty darn angry before.
Prayers for all concerned.
yes it looks like blood but I don't see pride on his face. He seems to be in shock, I am reminded of Lady Macbeth and wonder what in the world can cause such things.
When they showed that shot of the kid on the TV, he was shaking his head from side to side slowly.
He did look a little like he was in shock.
I don't see pride or shock; I see apathy. Girlangler said he was a little boy, however, he's as tall as the deputies escorting him to the car. His face is very youthful, though.
I wonder if she is related?
Rita Bartley, Jacksboro, TN 37757
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One of the local stations said his dad and an attorney was at the hospital with him (before he was released from UTMC). I'm sorry, but if my 16 y.o. has just killed one man and injured two others, calling an attorney and having him meet me at the hospital just isn't going to be my first thought, you know?
Are you from around here Tennessee Girl?
Keep us posted if you hear anything else. I'm in Jacksboro.
This is awful, just awful.
Yep. I in East Tennessee. One of the students was interviewed said Bartley had always been sort of an attention getter; a show off. Someone else said he had been suspended and came back to the school and started shooting. By tomorrow the kid's attorney will confide he was on Prozac or Zoloft or something (sigh).
Oops. Make that "I live in East Tennessee".
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