Armed to school, sixth grade student injured 3

The three injured persons are expected to recover, officials said at a press conference. Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said that the girl pulled a pistol out of her bag and fired several shots in and out of the Riggby elementary school in the small town of Rigg, about 145 miles southwest of Yellowstone National Park.

A teacher disarmed the girl and held her until the police arrived at the scene and arrested her, authorities said, without providing further details. Authorities say they are investigating the motive of the attack and are trying to learn where the girl had taken the gun. The student is from the city of Aidaho Falls, Sheriff Anderson said. He didn't publish her name.

Dr. Michael Lemon, director of trauma at the East Aidaho Regional Medical Centre, said that the injured adult was treated by a wound he had received on one of his limbs and was pulled out of the hospital. Dr. Lemon said the bullet was through the limb. Both shot students were held in hospital at night and one of them may need cryiscu intervention, but they are in stable condition, Dr. Lemon. One of the students had wounds on two limbs, he added.

About 9:15 a.m., police were notified of the gun incident. Numerous law enforcement agencies responded, and students were evacuated to a nearby high school to join their parents. I and my classmate were in class alone, with our teacher, we were studying, when suddenly, we heard a big bang and then two more shots. Later there were screams”, 12-year-old Yandel Rodriguez said. Our teacher went out to see what had happened and he saw signs of blood. ”

Yandel's mother, Adela Rodriguez, said they were fine, but <x0acoma slightly shocked” from shooting while leaving the school premises. “Today we had the worst chance that a school district could have”, said the Director of Education in Jefferson District, Chad Martin. Mr. Martin said schools would be closed across the region to give students time with their families, but he added that health experts would be available to students starting Friday morning.

According to the National Center for Statistics of Education, the primary school in Riga has about 1,500 students from sixth to eighth grade. Lucy Long, a sixth-grader at the Nisre Rigby School, told Post Register in Aidaho Falls that her class was put in extraordinary measures after gun shooting was heard, turning off lights and computers and listing students near the wall. She said she saw a small amount of blood in the corridor when police pulled her and other students out of the classroom.

This is the second attack on a school in Aidaho. In 1999 a high school student in Notus shot at another student. According to a 1989 Deseret News report, a student at Rigg High School issued a gun, threatened a teacher and students and took a 14-year-old hostage. The police safely rescued the hostage from a nearby church about an hour later and stopped the teenager. No one was shot in that incident. / VOA