School shooting in Campbell County, TN; 1 dead

[Brent]

North of Knoxville near the KY border. Three faculty members injured... student in custody, took place in the principal's office.

[GalvestonDuck]

Just got that also in my email from CrisisAlertNet:

Jacksboro Tn....shots fired at local High School....3 teachers down..one suspect (youth) in Custody

FBI reporting

[Brent]

One Dead, 2 Hurt in Tenn. School Shooting

JACKSBORO, Tenn. - A student shot and killed an assistant principal and seriously wounded two other administrators at a high school Tuesday, officials said. The student was arrested.

Parents rushed to 1,400-student Campbell County High School to take their children home after the shooting about 30 miles northwest of Knoxville.

Assistant Principal Ken Bruce was killed, and Assistant Principal Jim Pearce and Principal Gary Seale were wounded — Seale while trying to take the student into custory, according to state Education Department spokeswoman Rachel Woods.

The school was locked down after the shooting, and students were evacuated and loaded onto buses. "They are searching each student as they are getting on the buses," said Roger Wallace, a driver at a pizza restaurant nearby.

[TexasStooge]

Just what we need, another school shooting.

[GalvestonDuck]

Just what we need, another school shooting.

If they don't do it in school, they'll most likely turn around and do it at work a few years later.

Rage killings....

[breeze]

WSMV Channel 4 out of Nashville reported:


JACKSBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- A shooting by a student
at Campbell County High School Tuesday afternoon
resulted in the death of the assistant principal and
left two other school administrators injured.

School board member Homer Rutherford says no
students were injured.

Rutherford also says a student was arrested after
the early afternoon shooting.

Saint Mary's Medical Center of Campbell County
officials say they received two victims. The condition
and identities of the victims aren't currently available.

The school went into lock-down mode after the shooting.

Jacksboro police, the Campbell County Sheriff's
Department, LaFollette police and other area
emergency services responded to the scene at
about 1:30pm Central Standard Time.

Police dispatcher Michelle Beck says parents have
begun arriving at their school to begin taking their
children home.

Nearly 1,400 students attend Campbell County
High School, located in Jacksboro.

Jacksboro is located about 30 miles northwest
of Knoxville.

This shooting is the second fatal shooting of
a school employee in Tennessee this year.
Stewart County school bus driver Joyce Gregory,
who was 47, was killed as she stopped to pick
up a student on her route on March first.
Fifteen-year-old Jason Clinard is charged with murder
in the case and will be tried as an adult.

[JQ Public]

I hate how we can be terrorized even at our schools! When i was in highschool in the late nineties and 2000's this was the biggest thing people worried about. Boy have times changed!

[Skywatch_NC]

And then this kid will probably be released from a juvenile facility on his 21st birthday or so...just like that kid involved in a Jonesboro, AR school shooting ambush was released not too long ago...

Eric

[Josephine96]

Jonesboro was the 1 that started it all.. then came Paducah, Conyers GA, Columbine, the shooting overseas in Germany..

Will it ever stop..

[O Town]

No Josephine I don't think it will. I am terrified that my girls will be entering Jr. High in another 4 years, so much has changed since I was in Jr. High and High School. A gun was unheard of and so was gangs. I really will just have to trust that I raised my kids right and they pick good friends, and also hope that nothing as crazy as this breaks out at thier school. It is just so frightening.