US student with gun takes class hostage

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published August 26, 2015

A 14-year-old boy held 29 students and a teacher at gunpoint in a US high school classroom before he released them after negotiations and surrendered.

PHILIPPI, West Virginia, Aug 26 - The student took a pistol into a second-floor classroom on Tuesday afternoon at Philip Barbour ...

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