Wounded Principal Praised As Hero in Tenn. - Yahoo! News:
[NOTE: Homicide by boy downplayed by elite media. As opposed to deaths supposedly caused by supposed lies by the President of the United States.
[Also NOTE: "Hero" Principle tried "to wrestle the gun from the student. Possibly his choice of tactics let to the death and the injuries.]
"Wounded Principal Praised As Hero in Tenn. By DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Associated Press Writer
JACKSBORO, Tenn. - A 15-year-old boy charged with a school shooting in which an assistant principal died and two other school officials were wounded should be tried as an adult, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
District Attorney Paul Phillips said a juvenile court judge from outside Campbell County, where the shooting occurred Tuesday, will be asked to rule on whether the case against Ken Bartley Jr. should be transferred to circuit court.
'It is appropriate that he be tried as an adult and subject to adult penalties,' Phillips said.
Investigators were interviewing hundreds of witnesses and hoped to talk to the two wounded men during the afternoon, he said.
Principal Gary Seale was shot in the abdomen while trying to wrestle the gun from the student and Assistant Principal Jim Pierce was hit in the chest, authorities said. Both were in serious condition in intensive care at University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, spokeswoman Lisa McNeal said.
No students were hurt in the shooting at Campbell County Comprehensive High School.
The administrators and a teacher helped disarm the student, deputies said. Assistant Principal Ken Bruce was shot in the chest and died at a LaFollette hospital, authorities said.
Despite his injury, Seale managed to get to the intercom and order a lockdown, helping to end the rampage, authorities said.
[...] Seale and Pierce have been educators more than 30 years, said former assistant principal Clifford Kohlmeyer. Bruce [the assistant principal shot fatally] had been a lieutenant colonel in the Army and came back to teaching about eight years ago, Kohlmeyer said.
Tuesday's shooting marked the second time this year that a school employee was fatally shot.
Stewart County school bus driver Joyce Gregory, 47, was killed as she stopped to pick up a student on her route on March 1. Jason Clinard, 15, is charged with her slaying and will be tried as an adult. [...]"
