SWAT Team Shoots Teen Carrying Pellet Gun
Gary Taylor and Rene Stutzman
Sentinel
Chicago Tribune
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Longwood, Florida (US):
A Milwee Middle School eighth-grader, who last year threatened to blow up a school bus, showed up for class Friday with a pistol in his backpack.
However, classmates of Chris Penley, 15, didn't know it was a pellet gun.Neither did a veteran Seminole County deputy sheriff, who made a split-second decision to open fire when Chris pointed the weapon at him, authorities said.
The deputy's single shot gravely wounded the boy, who was on life support Friday at Orlando Regional Medical Center.The midmorning incident plunged the Longwood-area school into chaos, as frightened and weeping students gathered outside, awaiting anxious parents or school buses to take them home.
Jan 14, 2006
Gary Taylor and Rene Stutzman
Sentinel
Chicago Tribune
____________
Longwood, Florida (US):
A Milwee Middle School eighth-grader, who last year threatened to blow up a school bus, showed up for class Friday with a pistol in his backpack.
However, classmates of Chris Penley, 15, didn't know it was a pellet gun.Neither did a veteran Seminole County deputy sheriff, who made a split-second decision to open fire when Chris pointed the weapon at him, authorities said.
The deputy's single shot gravely wounded the boy, who was on life support Friday at Orlando Regional Medical Center.The midmorning incident plunged the Longwood-area school into chaos, as frightened and weeping students gathered outside, awaiting anxious parents or school buses to take them home.
Jan 14, 2006
