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Kentucky: 2 High School Students Killed & 18 Wounded in School Shooting

HeadlineJan 24, 2018

In Kentucky, two high school students were killed and 18 more were wounded after a 15-year-old boy walked into Marshall County High School with a handgun just before 8 a.m. local time on Tuesday morning and began shooting his fellow students in the common area. The victims are Bailey Nicole Holt and Preston Ryan Cope, both 15 years old. Five other students are still hospitalized in critical condition. This is Kentucky State Police Commissioner Rick Sanders.

Commissioner Rick Sanders: “In speaking of the human toll that something like this takes, I can’t tell you a whole lot about what happened there today, because I don’t want to do anything to hurt the investigation, but I will address the human toll it takes. In addition to those family members that have lost loved ones, that have had loved ones injured or hurt or traumatized, we pray for those people.”

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