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Girl shoots classmate
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WHILE hastily repainted walls, filled in bullet holes and floors washed clean of blood greeted stunned students returning to Santana High School on Wednesday, a 14-year-old girl opened fire with a handgun in the crowded cafeteria of a Roman Catholic school, wounding a female classmate in the second US school shooting in three days, police said.
The first school shooting in recent years to involve a female suspect unfolded at Bishop Neumann High School when eighth-grader Elizabeth Bush allegedly walked up behind 13-year-old Kimberly Marchese in a crowd of 115 students and shot her in the right shoulder with a .22 calibre handgun. Marchese was hospitalized in stable condition at a regional trauma centre.
Bush allegedly brought the weapon to school from her parents' home near this central Pennsylvania community of 31,500, located about 120 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
She was charged with several juvenile counts including attempted homicide, assault and illegal possession of a weapon, and was jailed in a juvenile detention centre.
The Lycoming County district attorney's office said prosecutors would decide over the next day or so whether to ask a juvenile court judge for permission to try her as an adult.
On Tuesday two 17-year-old students, allegedly planning a shooting attack at Monument High School in the southern California town of Twentynine Palms, were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. (SD-Agencies)
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