Student commits suicide at school Pennsylvania
ERDENHEIM - After pledging to improve his falling grades, Shane Halligan ate breakfast with his family, went off to school, and took his own life.
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The 11th-grader was an Eagle scout and volunteer firefighter who planned a career in the military. But the poor grades he brought home on his report card Monday led his parents to warn him to focus on school.
„The picture that’s emerging is he was despondent over the fact his grades are down, his parents are taking appropriate steps to limit extracurricular activities to get the grades up, and he saw the things that he felt were important in his life being taken from him”, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor said.
After the family breakfast Tuesday, Halligan retrieved a rifle from a locked cabinet -his father kept the two keys- and found high-powered ammunition in the basement. At Springfield Township High School (Pennsylvania, USA), the teenager took the weapon out of a large duffel bag after first period and fired several shots into the ceiling and high on the walls in a hallway, prompting students to scatter. He then walked to another hallway and shot himself in the head.
All students were evacuated to an adjacent middle school and all the district’s schools were locked down, said Laura Feller, a spokeswoman for the Springfield Township School District. Parents trickled to the school later Tuesday morning to pick up their children. (World)
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