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Posted on 01/17/2003 8:19:10 PM PST by ex-Texan
Teen Holds Classmates Hostage in Arroyo Grande -- But is Tackled by Other Students !
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. -- A suicidal sophomore student was arrested Friday after he briefly held about 25 classmates and two teachers hostage at gunpoint, police said.
The unidentified boy was tackled by two classmates, who took a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic gun from him, police Sgt. John Allen said.
No injuries were reported.
Police were called to Arroyo Grande High School at 9:11 a.m. after they received a report of a student with a gun, Allen said.
The unidentified 15-year-old pulled out the loaded weapon and pointed it at two teachers in his sophomore English class, ordering them to sit down, Allen said.
"His intent was to end his life," Allen said. "He wanted an audience. He had a lot of personal issues that he wasn't dealing with very well."
The teen was arrested for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon, bringing a weapon on school grounds and false imprisonment.
The high school was placed under lockdown for about an hour while authorities determined that no other students were involved.
Arroyo Grande, population 16,000, is 142 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Which is why his handgun was fully loaded and he had a spare clip. He needed all 29 bullets to kill himself.
Right. I wonder if the teachers had undergone some idiotic post-Columbine training telling them not to do what these teenage heros did.
No doubt they'll be expelled, too.
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Sure beats a 14 hour SWAT standoff.
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Was his father a gay lawyer from the bay area?
Actually A.G. is a pretty nice little town, I used to live there
If this teen simply wanted to commit suicide, he could have done it at home. Instead, he forced teachers and students to become involved and created a dangerous situation by using a gun to get his message across. They ought to throw this teen in a prison cell and then throw away the damn key.
If it was a black area, it would have been mentioned; and since Arroyo Grande is in Mexifornia, chances are the perp is Mexican or of Mexican descent.
We may never know because he is underage, however.
However, since mass school shooters (as opposed to gang type violence) and suicidal kids are more typically disturbed white kids, I guess I was actully picturing a "troubled" white kid who had been bullied a few too many times when reading the article. Thus, your comments caught me off guard. I thought "What the heck is he talking about and why is it important here?" I hadn't even considered the predominantly Hispanic population.
Both genralizations can be made, so I felt "guessing the race" was pointless here. I do it myself, but only if race was the reason for a crime (like black hate crimes again whites, which are never idenitified as such) or if a perp is still on the loose and SHOULD be identified. I also recognize and bristle at the racial reporting with the more rare white on black hate crimes.
Any other situation just seems to have no purpose. Be aware that your comments, whether intended or not, can be construed as an attempt to advance a racist agenda itself and is dangerous. This is why I like to preserve this type of speculation for instances where a greater level of relevance is present.
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