- Student shot himself in a boy’s bathroom at Jackson Memorial Middle School in Ohio on Tuesday morning
- He was rushed to hospital to be treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound
- The boy’s condition is now yet known
- School went into lockdown and students are in the process of being reuinted with their parents
- Police would not reveal if the shooting was intentional or an accident
A 7th grader at an Ohio middle school has shot himself in a bathroom on campus.
Jackson Memorial Middle School went into lockdown early Tuesday after the student shot himself in the men’s restroom just before 8am.
The boy was rushed to a nearby hospital to be treated for the self-inflicted gunshot wound but his condition is not yet known.
Jackson Memorial Middle School went into lockdown early Tuesday after the student shot himself in the men’s restroom just before 8am
Police would not reveal if the shooting was intentional or an accident.
‘The Middle School and High School are on lockdown at this time,’ Jackson Local Schools said in a statement.
‘Students will be released to their parents in the near future.’
The district said all four elementary schools would remain closed on Tuesday.
Police said they would investigate how the student was able to get a gun inside the school.
Parents waited anxiously outside the middle school for their children to be released
An officer is pictured above speaking to a motorist outside Jackson Township Middle School after a boy shot himself in a bathroom just before 8am
Parents were waiting anxiously outside the school for their children to be evacuated.
Gina Larkins, whose daughter is in eighth grade, told News 5 she noticed the police activity on her way to drop her other daughter at the elementary school.
‘I received a phone call from the superintendent that the middle school and high school was on lockdown and all the elementary schools would be closed. I just pulled in waiting to hear further information,’ she said.
‘I just want to get my daughter and hug her and hold her. I thought it would never happen here but obviously, that is not the case.’
Police said the heavily emergency response was a precaution.
Anxious parents waited to hear news outside the middle school – less than a week after a gunman opened fire on a Florida high school