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Boy held in shooting of classmate

Associated Press

  February 24, 2012

Crying and wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, a 9-year-old boy appeared yesterday before a juvenile judge who will ultimately determine whether the third-grader will face criminal charges in a school shooting that left a young classmate critically wounded. Authorities say the boy brought a .45-caliber handgun he got from his mother’s house to an elementary school in Bremerton on Wednesday, and the weapon discharged just before classes let out. The boy appeared at a preliminary hearing yesterday afternoon.

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