3 injured in Idaho middle school shooting

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NBC affiliate KPVI identified the wounded as two students and a janitor. The news station reported a suspect was in custody. He is a student at the school, according to The Associated Press

Rigby is about 95 miles southwest of Yellowstone National Park.

Sheriff: Girl shoots 3 at Idaho school; teacher disarms her
By REBECCA BOONE
May 6, 2021 GMT
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, shot and wounded two students and a custodian and then was disarmed by a teacher Thursday, authorities said.

The three were shot in their extremities and were expected to survive, officials said at a news conference. Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson says the girl pulled a handgun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds inside and outside Rigby Middle School in the small city of Rigby, about 95 miles (145 kilometers) southwest of Yellowstone National Park.

A female teacher disarmed the girl and held her until law enforcement arrived and took her into custody, authorities said, without giving other details. Authorities say they’re investigating the motive for the attack and where the girl got the gun.

She is from the nearby city of Idaho Falls, Anderson said. He didn’t release her name.

What happened within young people, students, kids, to make guns now an option to consider, now THE option to consider?

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The findings contrast with the impression left by a flurry of news reports about people rushing to buy guns and clearing shop shelves of assault rifles after the massacre last year at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

“There are all these claims that gun ownership is going through the roof,” said Daniel Webster, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. “But I suspect the increase in gun sales has been limited mostly to current gun owners. The most reputable surveys show a decline over time in the share of households with guns.”

That decline, which has been studied by researchers for years but is relatively unknown among the general public, ...

Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said Friday the investigation is likely to take “a considerable amount of time.” He said neither the name of the suspect – a sixth-grade girl – nor the name of the teacher who disarmed her would be immediately released.

The shooting took place over the course of about five minutes, Anderson s

Girls and women commit just 2 percent of both mass shootings and school shootings in the U.S, according to data complied by the group The Violence Project.

The group has a database tracking shootings at schools where more than one person was shot or a person came to school heavily armed with the intention of firing indiscriminately. It includes 146 cases going back to 1980. Girls were the shooters in just three of those cases. Experts differ on exactly why, though it’s known that men commit over 90 percent homicides in general.

Researchers have also found that shooters who target bigger groups or schools tend to study perpetrators before them, who are more likely to be male.

Boys in general also tend to externalize anger and sadness against other people, whereas girls are more likely to internalize those emotions and have higher rates of depression and anxiety, Peterson said.

The fact that the girl’s shots wounded rather than killed three people could be an indication that she had not planned as carefully and wasn’t as familiar the gun as compared to other similar shooters, Peterson said.

The girl is also younger than most school shooters, who are more often in high school. The Violence Project’s database shows about 18 percent of school shootings were at middle schools, though most of those were among older teenagers. Only a handful involved 6th-grade students, Peterson said.

Most attackers who carried out deadly school shootings were male; seven were female, according to the studies. Researchers said 63 percent of the attackers were white, 15 percent were black, 5 percent Hispanic, 2 percent were American Indian or Alaska Native, 10 percent were of two or more races and 5 percent were undetermined.