French police detain teen pupil suspected in school shooting in which 2 were wounded
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AUBAGNE, France (AP) — French police detained a 14-year-old suspected of opening fire Monday on his middle school principal and a teacher with a hunting gun that he hid in a guitar case, wounding both in a rare school shooting, prosecutors said.
A staff member at the Joseph Lakanal middle school in Aubagne, east of Marseille, disarmed the boy after he fired multiple shots while roaming on two floors of the school, prosecutors said. Police then took him into custody. Aubagne is about 15 kilometers (9 miles) east of the port city of Marseille.
Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said in a statement that the pupil fired once or twice on the first floor, wounding the principal and the teacher in the legs. They were hit with ammunition used in 12-gauge shotguns, police said. They were transported to a hospital with injuries that weren’t life threatening, the prosecutor said.
The boy then went to the second floor and opened fire again, twice, he said.
