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   From: go.ahead.shoot.the.parents@nytimes.com   
      
   Police shot and killed an armed student outside a Wisconsin middle school   
   Wednesday, sending students fleeing for their lives — including some who   
   escaped on in-line skates.   
      
   Authorities responded to an “active shooter” situation reported outside   
   Mount Horeb Middle School and “neutralized” a student with a gun, school   
   officials said.   
      
   No one else was harmed, State Attorney General Josh Kaul said at a press   
   conference Wednesday evening.   
      
   “This incident took place outdoors. The subject in this case never gained   
   entry,” he said.   
      
   Authorities described the student as a juvenile male but did not provide   
   further identification. It’s not clear how many officers fired their   
   weapons or whether the suspect had shot at them.   
      
   The investigation is ongoing, Kaul said.   
      
   Hours later, school officials were still working to get students who had   
   been locked down since before noon back with their families.   
      
   Terrified parents said that their children hid in closets, scared to take   
   out their phones to call or text. One middle schooler said his class fled   
   the school gym on in-line skates.   
      
   Brittany Rodriguez, a mother of four, told WMTV her son called her in a   
   panic and said he heard multiple gunshots.   
      
   “To get a call when you’re at work from your babies crying, saying there’s   
   a shooting going on and we’re scared, and you’re 30 minutes away from   
   them,” Rodriguez said.   
      
   Alyssa Kopsczynski, mother of a 12-year-old, said she heard all the sirens   
   going off from her home and immediately got a “gut-wrenching feeling you   
   never want to experience as a parent.”   
      
   Her seventh-grade daughter, Macy, recalled the tense moments sitting in   
   her classroom as police cleared the building.   
      
   “Well there’s just a bunch of police officers that kept knocking on the   
   door, making sure it was barricaded, and our sub that we had was by the   
   door, ready, and we’re all just sitting there, quiet and texting our   
   parents,” she told WMTV.   
      
   The district announced around 11:15 a.m. that all schools had been locked   
   down. In an update posted on social media, officials confirmed that there   
   were no injuries but “the alleged assailant” had been harmed.   
      
   Witnesses described seeing children running from the middle school.   
      
   Jeanne Keller said she heard about five gunshots while in her shop The   
   Quilting Jeanne, just down the block from the campus that includes the   
   middle school.   
      
   “It was maybe like pow-pow-pow-pow,” Keller said. “I thought it was   
   fireworks. I went outside and saw all the children running … I probably   
   saw 200 children.”   
      
   One middle schooler, 12-year-old Max Kelly, said his class was in the   
   school gym practicing in-line skating when they heard gunshots.   
      
   When his teacher told the class to get out of the school they skated to a   
   street, ditched the skates and ran to a convenience store and gas station   
   where they hid in a bathroom.   
      
   He was sitting with his mother Wednesday afternoon waiting for his younger   
   siblings to be released while wearing just his socks.   
      
   “I don’t think anywhere is safe anymore,” said his mother, 32-year-old   
   Alison Kelly.   
      
   Mount Horeb Superintendent Steve Salerno said schools would be closed on   
   Thursday to give students and staff time to recover from the scare, WMTV   
   reported. He said they hope to have everyone return to classes on Friday.   
      
   Mount Horeb, which is about 25 miles west of the state capital Madison, is   
   home to around 7,600 people and the central office of outerwear retailer   
   Duluth Trading Company.   
      
   Wisconsin Gov. Tony Ever said he has been briefed on the situation.   
      
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