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A high school student shot and wounded an administrator and a school police officer in suburban Kansas City; the student was injured when an officer responded to the assault, authorities reported.
The Olathe East High School boy was taken into custody, Olathe police Sgt. Joel Yeldell said, and all three are expected to survive. No other students were injured, he added. Police have not identified the suspect.
Yeldell said the police officer notified headquarters by radio just following 10:30 a.m. that he and an administrator had been shot by a student in the office. The officer stated that he returned fire, according to Yeldell, injuring the student.
“I’ve been shot,” the police officer told operators in radio traffic picked up by Broadcastify.com. He then said a tourniquet had been applied and the suspect’s firearm had been secured, The Kansas City Star reported.
The operator replied: “We have a lot of help going there.” Yeldell did not provide additional information regarding what led to the shooting.
“The good news is that no students were injured,” Yeldell told a news conference. “We have a school police officer who seems to have done his job, so it’s great news and it is expected that the injuries can be overcome.”
This is an older student, Yeldell said. The county attorney’s office declined to comment on possible charges.
In a statement, Overland Park Regional Medical Center reported that One of the three injured is in critical condition. The other two have been discharged. The statement indicates that the relatives ask for privacy.
Panic gripped Susan Burgett when she learned of the school shooting of her 16-year-old daughter, Emerson Burgett, she told her, her daughter he immediately texted to tell her he was safe.
“The first thing I thought was to panic and imagine that there is an armed attacker in the corridor and children screaming, but that is not what happened, thank God,” he said as he waited to meet his daughter at the scene. .
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