TEXASStudent fatally shoots herself inside schoolA 14-year-old female student died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday after shooting and wounding another female student inside a high school in west Texas, according to the local sheriff. Dodson said a federal law enforcement officer who was responding to the incident was shot in the leg when another officer’s gun accidentally discharged. Law enforcement officials were also dealing withbomb threats made in the wake of the shooting. Law enforcement officers pinged Rita’s cellphone to help determine her location. The court’smajority ruled that the federal gun ownership ban requires the offenses to be considered serious crimes, rather than ones carryingstate sentences of at least two years or more.

Source: Washington Post September 08, 2016 21:45 UTC