No charges after gun goes off in US school

By EducationHQ News Team
Published August 26, 2013

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Aug 23 - Police will not file against a five-year-old US student after a gun discharged inside the child's backpack in a ...

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No charges after gun goes off in US school

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