Fla. headmistress killed in apparent murder-suicide
Source: CBS News / AP
(AP) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A man who was fired from a private school on Tuesday returned to campus with a gun hidden in a guitar case and shot the headmistress to death before committing suicide, authorities said.
No students were injured.
Officers responded to the Episcopal School of Jacksonville at 1:23 p.m. Tuesday after receiving reports of a person with a gun, and the school was placed on lockdown. When officers arrived, Dale Regan, head of the school, and the gunman were found dead, Undersheriff Dwain Senterfitt said.
"Today we have truly lost a great educator and an advocate for all children," said Barbara Hodges, executive director of the Florida Council of Independent Schools.
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