High School Shooting Research Paper

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Another public school has turned into an area of a disaster. On Tuesday morning, sixteen people were wounded and another two died after an open fire shooting took place in western Kentucky. A 15 year old student was arrested with charges or murder. According to a student at the high school the suspect came armed with a handgun at 8:57 a.m, 911 was called two minutes later. The victims of this unfaithful occurrence were aged around fourteen to eighteen, fourteen were male the other six females.

This school shooting was a social injustice, because the student who has been arrested for this vicious act of violence committed a serious crime of murder. This student greatly affected his school and town, he brought true fear into the parents and

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