Deadly Shooting Puts School on Lockdown (Pittsburgh)

KDKA ^ | 3/16/05 | KDKA

[HereComesTheGOP]

Pittsburgh (KDKA) A deadly shooting outside Carrick High School this afternoon has put the school on lockdown.

Officials have confirmed that one student is dead and two others were wounded in the shooting around 2pm.

According to authorities, police stopped a car outside the school and were running a check on its license plate when another vehicle pulled up and started shooting at the car.

One juvenile in the car was shot in the head and killed; a second juvenile was critically injured by gunshots. A third juvenile in the car was injured by flying glass. Authorities believe all three were Carrick High School students.

Police say the shooting may have involved an AK-47.

As a precaution, students have been kept inside the building past their normal 2:17pm dismissal while police officers swarmed the area; but they're expected to be released within the hour.

More than 1300 students in ninth through twelfth grades are enrolled at Carrick High School, which is located on Parkfield Street.

[RayBob]

East Pittsburgh? Your dad work for Westinghouse by chance?

[RayBob]

Ches-Arena! Let's not forget that!

[TalonDJ]

NO firearms should be in the hands of unsupervised and/irresponsible kids. That fact that it might have been big black scary 'AK' is irrelevant.

[Chef Dajuan]

If you want gun control...


....use BOTH hands.

[SoothingDave]

East Pittsburgh? Your dad work for Westinghouse by chance?

W-5. Thirty-some years. Took early retirement when they closed.

SD

[jmc813]

Some weapons have no place except in the military.

That logic is extremely dangerous. The purpose of the Second Amendment is that the citizens are not outgunned by the military.

[TalonDJ]

I thought the AK-47 was a true selective-fire "assault" rifle

No, a real AK-47 is not 'select fire'. It is full-auto or nothing.

[TalonDJ]

There are already many restrictions on the AK-47s. Only someone that believed MSM deception would think otherwise.

[freeangel]

Former 'burg(er) save.

[Disambiguator]

Either way, it's not your garden-variety semi auto that you can pick up at Big 5.

[xsmommy]

hey, yunz are homies since you know all this stuff!!

[RayBob]

Hell, that's nothing! I even know where Indianola is!

[Lancey Howard]

There is NO good reason for AK-47's to be "on the streets".

Who could disagree with that?
Everybody should keep their AK-47s in their homes or at the shooting range unless special circumstances require one on the floor of the car.

[B Knotts]

I can't believe I'm reading this on FR.

I've come to expect it over the past couple of years.

[TalonDJ]

Ok I see now you have bought into the idea that since the APB went away there are no restrictions on machine guns. This is nonsense. Real fully automatic weapons have been restricted for a long long time. I don't recall the date but I think it was since the '30s. The AWB was a joke that only served to raise the cost of some types of semiauto weapons and remove some features that were useless to a criminal anyway (like bayonet lugs). If you think we are short on restrictions for machine guns you are misinformed.

[xsmommy]

i had an aunt that lived in indianola, again, my neck of the woods!

[xsmommy]

i sense there is a 2d amdt argument swirling around this thread, but i am just enjoying reminiscing about my hometown and places i haven't been in years!

[Irish Rose]

If you wish. I believe that no citizen should have such weapons as rocket-launchers, or RPGs, and other things on that line. I'm still on secure constitutional ground - rocket-propelled grenades can't really be classified as "firearms".

[activationproducts]

If you think the police would ever be disarmed you are even more clueless than your initial reponses indicated.

[Willie Green]

where are the NORTH HILLS???

North Hills is McKnight Road, about halfway between West View and Wexford.