[Newspoetry] Another gun in school

[Sam Patterson]

Found this online today:
6th-Grader Holds Class at Gunpoint      (wants to be with his mommy)

     Thursday, 23 March 2000
     L I S B O N , O H I O  (AP)

     A SIXTH-GRADER pulled a gun in his classroom Thursday morning but a
     teacher persuaded him to drop the weapon, the school superintendent
     said. 

     No one was hurt and the 12-year-old boy was taken into custody. He told
     authorities that his mother is in jail and he wanted to join her,
     Superintendent Anthony Krukowski said. 

     The boy came into his McKinley Elementary School classroom at about 9
     a.m., pointed a gun at the floor and told his classmates and teacher
Dan
     Kemats to get down, Krukowski said. 

     A pupil in the hallway overheard the exchange and summoned another
     teacher, Linda Robb, who persuaded the boy to give up the gun,
     Krukowski said. The whole thing was over in less than five minutes, he
     said. 

     The boy's name was not released. 

     Authorities didn't immediately say if the gun, which was not a toy, was
     loaded. The boy apparently got it from home and kept it in his pocket,
     Krukowski said. 

     The school was closed for the day. It will not have classes Friday but
will
     be open for students who want to come in for counseling. 

     "Naturally the students were shook up, any time you have an incident
like
     that," Krukowski said. 

     Krukowski said he wasn't very familiar with the boy and was unaware of
     any behavior problems. "As far as I am aware of, there was nothing
     substantial," he said. 

     The school has about 650 students from kindergarten through sixth
grade.
     The district has about 1,350 students. Lisbon is about 25 miles south
of
     Youngstown, near the Ohio-West Virginia-Pennsylvania lines.



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