SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — Police are trying to find out how the gun involved in Wednesday’s shooting at Seminole High School got into the school.
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Detectives said they have a lot to learn after they interview the suspected shooter, but they did say It was between two male students over a girl.
They said just before noon, students told resource officers there was a gun on Seminole High School’s campus. They went to investigate and heard shots coming from the Tomahawk building and saw students running away.
They found an 18-year-old who had been shot three times.
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Police put the school on lockdown and found casings first, then the gun, then the suspect, a 16-year-old boy.
School administrators cleared the campus a little less than two hours after the shooting. Counselors will be available tomorrow.
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Superintendent Serita Beaman called it “the worst day for any school system.”
Normal operations will resume at the school Thursday.
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