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N.H. teen shoots himself at school

14-year-old male seriously injured, town shocked

By Amanda Cedrone

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 11, 2012

Walpole, N.H., elementary school student shot and seriously wounded himself yesterday in a cafeteria full of his horrified classmates, officials said. The 14-year-old boy shot himself around 11 a.m. in the Walpole Elementary School cafeteria, said Peter Heed, Cheshire County attorney. The student was taken by MedFlight to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. No one else was injured. The school went into lockdown immediately after the incident.

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