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Judi Lynn

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Fri Jan 20, 2017, 07:08 PM Jan 2017

The Latest: Sheriff: Staff overpowered armed Ohio student

Source: Associated Press


Updated 3:59 pm, Friday, January 20, 2017


WEST LIBERTY, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on an Ohio school shooting that injured one student (all times local):
4:50 p.m.

Authorities say staff at an Ohio school where a junior was shot overpowered the armed student and prevented what could have been a far worse situation.

Champaign County Sheriff Michael Melvin says more people would have been wounded at the West Liberty school building on Friday morning without the intervention because the shooter's intent was to harm more people.

West Liberty school superintendent Kraig Hissong (HIS'-song) identified the injured student as 16-year-old junior Logan Cole.




Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/The-Latest-Sheriff-Staff-overpowered-armed-Ohio-10872504.php

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