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A POLICE OFFICER shot a 17-year-old runaway in the wrist this morning at a Hawaii high school after the teen cut one officer with a knife and punched two others, authorities said.
State Department of Education spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said the boy showed up at Roosevelt High School near downtown Honolulu, and officials there recognised him as a runaway and called police.
The boy had been a student at the public school before but wasn’t registered for classes there this semester, she said.
Honolulu Police Major Richard Robinson said officers arrived at the school and tried to take the boy into custody, but he lunged at them.
The teen attacked one of the officers with a knife, leaving him with a minor cut on his torso, Robinson said. He also hit two other officers, but neither suffered serious injuries.
Parents await the release of students after a school shooting at Roosevelt High School. Pic: AP Photo/Marco Garcia
One of the officers then fired two shots, hitting the boy once in the wrist. The teen was taken to a hospital in serious condition, EMS spokeswoman Shayne Enright said. His injuries were not life-threatening.
The incident prompted a lockdown at Roosevelt, which has an enrollment of about 1,500.
Noah Powell, a 16-year-old junior, said the shooting happened in a school counsellor's office. Powell said he was in a nearby office and heard the struggle and shots, but he didn't see the 17-year-old or know who he was.
Kealii Akiona-Soares, a junior, was in social studies class when he heard a faint shot at about 8.20am.
Then a school bell sounded and students were kept in their classrooms, the 17-year-old said. He said his class continued with a politics lesson, and everyone kept mostly calm.
Students leave school at Roosevelt High School after a school shooting on campus. Pic: AP Photo/Marco Garcia
Several parents, including Carolyn Richardson, gathered outside Roosevelt after word of the shooting spread. Some were visibly upset, and many texted or called their children.
"This is really freaking me out," Richardson told the AP.
Richardson said she learned about the shooting around 9am through a text from her son, CarDarow, a sophomore.
CarDarow texted her that he heard shots had been fired at the school, but that he was all right. Richardson then used her cellphone to video chat with her son. "I gotta hear your voice," she screamed at him.
School was let out for the day at about 10am, and a steady stream of students filed off the campus, near the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific known as Punchbowl.
Hawaii is one of 12 states that have not had a school shooting, or someone entering a campus with the intent to shoot, state Education Department officials said.
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not to downplay the serious of breast cancer but it’s movember more people die from testicle cancer than breast. so numbers are way higher across the board.
thank you to all my mo bro’s for raising awareness.
Not suprising when you consider that Ireland is one of the highest fluoridated countries in the world! That is also why the Irish are so much asleep and do not speak out against injustice. The same happened to the prisoners of war in Nazi Germany when they were fluoridated by the Nazis, so anything could be done with the prisoners without much retaliation. The Nazis learned this from the Soviets! Fluoride has no health benefits what-so-ever! It was all a Bogus science as Doctor Harald Hodge sold himself out to protest an industry that was being sued by farmers and people working with fluorine gas which contaminated and destroyed livestock and people. Using the lies of this one scientist, the lawsuites were stopped.
Really not surprising when you take into account that some women have to travel 4 hours or more to a breast clinic, you have to find someone to mind your children for the whole day just so you can get checked over. Then there’s the treatment – these centres of excellence that were introduced are a disaster. A relation of mine was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer – he will have to travel over 6 hours a day for radiotherapy. Having cancer is stressful enough but throwing ridiculous amounts of travel in on cramped buses makes it even harder. It’s a time when you need to be resting and to be surrounded by your family and instead you spend it on a bus..no wonder our mortality rates are so high.
Got any peer reviewed scientifically verified evidence to back up that bullshit Charles?
The Nazi fluoridation story is a myth. As is its psychological effects.
The scientific evidence for its effectiveness against tooth decay in children and adults is well documented over many years of study.
And there hasn’t been any direct link between fluoridation and increased risk of cancer that I can find. So I don’t see how it is any more a cancer risk than coffee.
There is also a big difference between flourine gas and the flouride salts used in the water supply.
Please don’t spread this crap. And I don’t want to see any “evidence” from some random website thanks.
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