- Mumford High School shooting (2010)
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The Mumford High School shooting was an incident that occurred on September 8, 2010, the first day of the 2010-2011 school year, at Mumford High School in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Mumford experienced a devastating first day of school, having to take on the responsibility of two wounded students, one female and the other male.
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The shooting
On the first day of school, two Mumford High School students were rushed to the hospital with gunshot wounds. The shooting took place just feet away from school property. Witnesses say the incident began as a fight at school and then spilled out into the streets. According to witness accounts, a group of juveniles approached a student who then fired shots, wounding two students, one of whom was not involved in the fight.
Similar school violence
Mumford is not the only school in the Detroit area that has experienced a school shooting, but it is the most recent.
One student was fatally shot and three others were wounded not far from Henry Ford High School in October 2008. The victims' parents filed a lawsuit against the district in 2010, claiming Ford High School officials failed to prevent the attack, which followed a fight inside the building earlier that day.
In February 2009, a former Central High School student was shot on the second floor of the school near the end of the school day.[1]
Victims
The victims of the shooting were a 14-year-old girl, who was grazed near her eyebrow, and a 16-year-old boy, who was shot in the buttocks. Noelle Cooper, the innocent bystander, was left with a wound that took 12 stitches to repair. Doctors told the teen's family that if the bullet had gone half an inch lower, it would have killed her. The students leaving school were also victims of the Mumford school shooting.
A man was killed by police after the school shooting. Officers were in the Mumford area, looking for clues and talking to witnesses about the shooting, then went to an apartment in the 200 block of Merton, where they encountered a man with a gun in the hallway. When ordered to drop the weapon, the man allegedly pointed it at officers, who then shot and killed him. Police said they were there in regards to the shooting but initially would neither confirm nor deny whether the man took part in the Mumford shooting earlier that day. Later studies say the man was not involved in the Mumford high school shooting.[2]
"The madness needs to stop," Cooper, a police official, said during a press conference at Detroit Police Department headquarters. "Every kid should be able to go to and from school without being shot."[3]
Trial/aftermath
Steven Jamal Hare, 17, of Detroit was arraigned Friday, September 10, 2010 in the city's 36th District Court on two counts of assault with intent to murder, two counts of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and weapons charges. He received a $500,000 cash bond and the assault charges carry potential life sentences.[4]
Two juvenile males are being held in connection with the incident. Prosecutors say they have yet to determine whether they will also face charges.
More than a quarter of school buses were late picking up students on the first day of school, due to the shooting, and some were short staffed. Parents removed students from Mumford as a result of this incident, and on the following day some teachers did not show up to work.
References
- ^ http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/detroit-mumford-high-school-students-shot
- ^ http://www.cbslocal.com/2010/.../2-teens-shot-near-detroits-mumford-high
- ^ From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100911/SCHOOLS/9110343/Father-of-shot-Mumford-student-laments--madness-#ixzz14ExnmWeb
- ^ From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100911/SCHOOLS/9110343/Father-of-shot-Mumford-student-laments--madness-#ixzz14EymKNkp
Categories:- 2010 in Michigan
- Crime in Detroit, Michigan
- Spree shootings in the United States
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