A student shot and killed a teacher, wounding two classmates before killing himself at Sparks Middle School in northern Nevada at about 7:15 Monday morning, law enforcement officials said, as Reuters reported.
"A kid started getting mad and he pulled out a gun and shoots my friend, one of my friends at least," a 7th grader told KOLO-TV. "And then he walked up to a teacher and says back up, the teacher started backing up and he pulled the trigger. The teacher was just lying there and he was limp, he didn't know what to do, he was just in a lot of pain. And me and five other friends went to him and said come on we've got to get him to safety. We picked him up, carried him a little bit far and we left him because our vice principal came along and said go, go, go get to safety, get to safety. So we left the teacher there and we went to safety," the eyewitness added.
Kyle Nucum, an 8th grader, told the Reno Gazette-Journal that he heard about half a dozen shots. "The student fired a shot at the teacher and the teacher fell and everybody ran away," Nucum said.
"I heard him saying, Why you people making fun of me, why you laughing at me?", Michelle Hernandez also told the newspaper.
Eyewitnesses said that the gunman killed a staff member who was trying to protect other children, WCHS 8 reported. The gunman also killed himself, once 150 officers arrived on site, news reports said.
Classes and after school activities were canceled at Sparks Middle School for the rest of the week, the school district said.
