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   A middle-school student in Sparks, Nev., shot and killed a   
   teacher and wounded two other students before apparently killing   
   himself on campus, police said Monday.   
      
   Further details about the shooting at Sparks Middle School   
   shortly after 7 a.m. remained scant after a news conference late   
   Monday morning, but witnesses described hearing shots on the   
   playground before a student in khakis gunned down a teacher.   
      
   [Updated 1:54 p.m. PDT Oct. 21: Family members of the teacher   
   shot and killed at Sparks Middle School identified him as   
   Michael Landsberry.   
      
   "It doesn't feel real. It's totally surreal to have it happen,"   
   Landsberry's sister-in-law, Chanda Landsberry, told the Los   
   Angeles Times.]   
      
    A student who saw the shooting told the Reno Gazette-Journal   
   that he and his friends were by the school basketball court when   
   they heard a loud pop, followed by screaming.   
      
   “The teacher came to investigate,” 8th-grader Kyle Nucum, 13,   
   told the Gazette. “I thought it was a firecracker at first, but   
   the student was pointing a gun at the teacher after the teacher   
   told him to put it down, and the student fired a shot at the   
   teacher and the teacher fell and everybody ran away.   
      
   “And we ran across the field to get somewhere safe and while we   
   were running we heard about four or five more shots and we just   
   got somewhere safe."   
      
   Andrew Thompson, a 7th grade student at Sparks Middle School,   
   said Monday on KOLO-TV that the shooter, a student, “started   
   getting mad and shoots one of my friends.”   
      
   “He got shot in the shoulder,” Thompson said. Then, the shooter   
   came near a teacher “and said ‘back up.’ The teacher backed up,   
   and he pulled the trigger.”   
      
   The teacher has not yet been formally identified, and nor has   
   the student suspect. Police said that one of the two wounded   
   students had been through surgery as of late Monday morning.   
      
   Their current medical conditions could not immediately be   
   confirmed with the Renown Regional Medical Center, where the two   
   students were originally taken in critical condition.   
      
   Police said about 20 to 30 students witnessed the shooting and   
   will be questioned. The school was swept for explosives, police   
   said, and none were found. Parents were told to show   
   identification when picking up their children at a nearby school.   
      
   Dale Lundin, a site facilities coordinator at Sparks Middle   
   School, told the Los Angeles Times that “it’s been a very scary   
   morning.”   
      
   “I was in the building, it was just going to be a few minutes   
   before the entry bell rang, and then there was a lot of   
   commotion going on out in the hallway,” Lundin said. “I stepped   
   into the hallway, heard a couple of gun shots … checked the   
   hallway [to make sure there were no students] … and stepped into   
   my office and closed the door.”   
      
   Lundin added, “It’s that same old story,” Lundin said. “You   
   never really think that it’s going to happen at your place of   
   work, or in this case, your school, when it does happen it kind   
   of puts you in shock.”   
      
   That sentiment was echoed by school, community and state   
   officials as Sparks came to grips with a traumatic act of school   
   violence that brought parents streaming to the school in hopes   
   that their children were safe.   
      
   “It’s been said that it’s a tragic day in the city of Sparks.   
   Our hearts go out to all those affected,” Sparks Mayor Geno   
   Martini told reporters. “The city itself is very safe, this is   
   just an isolated incident.   
      
   “It’s very, very tragic,” Martini added. “I’m saddened to be   
   here.”   
      
   Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said that he’d ordered the state’s   
   lieutenant governor and state schools superintendent to Sparks   
   to assist the local effort.   
      
      
   http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sparks-middle-   
   school-shooting-teacher-dead-   
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