SWAT team Shoots suicidal Fla Student After Threat

January 13th, 2006, 02:07 PM

A suicidal eighth grader who pulled a handgun in class and briefly took another child hostage was shot by a SWAT team member Friday when he threatened deputies, Seminole County officials said.
Sheriff Don Eslinger said the 15-year-old boy brought the gun to Milwee Middle School in his backpack and briefly took a fellow student hostage during a classroom scuffle.
He then ran from the classroom and "traveled with this firearm throughout the campus," Eslinger said. He was pursued by deputies into a restroom, and the school was evacuated.
Eslinger said the boy was suicidal.
"At one time he held the gun to his neck. As the deputies attempted to establish dialogue, he raised the firearm and lethal force was used by the sheriff's office," Eslinger said.
The boy was taken to the hospital. His condition was not immediately known.
The other student was not injured, Eslinger said.
The school is in the Orlando suburbs.

**imported_biggamesjames** · January 13th, 2006, 05:01 PM

Incidents like that have become all too common in american youth.

**Jason** · January 13th, 2006, 10:21 PM

Some parents just dont know their kids or dont want to know them.

**SWVA-Football** · January 13th, 2006, 11:54 PM

*waits patiently for the media to blame the violence on video games such as 10+ year old Doom and the Grand Theft Auto series*

January 14th, 2006, 09:09 AM

The thing was a pellet gun..... it's on CNN right now.

**oakland_raiders** · January 14th, 2006, 10:29 AM

that boy was an idiot

**imported_elp6n** · January 14th, 2006, 11:31 AM

He has painted the orange tip of the pellet gun black, to make it look like a "real" gun.

January 14th, 2006, 04:45 PM

Got his wish....

**SWVA-Football** · January 15th, 2006, 05:21 PM

Indeed. Stupidity and senseless decisions very often lead to consequences with five times the severity..

I heard the kid died from the injuries, so he indeed got his wish. His deathwish.

**imported_elp6n** · January 15th, 2006, 06:10 PM

He is braindead. They're keeping him on life support so that his organs can be harvested & donated.

Now the dad is mad saying he told them, before the boy was shot, that the gun was a fake.

If I was a parent of one of the other students in there I wouldnt take the dad's word as gospel. Sure he may have had the fake gun (still capable of causing harm), but he may have also had a real one that Dad didn't know about.

I think the officers did the right thing