8-year-old critical after accidental Wash. school shooting
Posted: 02/23/2012
SEATTLE - Police say an 8-year-old girl critically wounded by a gunshot at her elementary school near Seattle apparently was shot accidentally.
Bremerton, Wash., police Lt. Peter Fisher says a gun brought to the school Wednesday discharged while still in a third-grade boy's backpack.
Fisher says the bullet hit the nearby girl.
Fisher says the student who brought the gun to Armin Jahr Elementary has been booked into juvenile detention for investigation of unlawful possession of a gun, bringing a dangerous weapon to school and third-degree assault.
Police are trying to determine how the child got the gun.
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