Houston, TX, United States (AHN) – Three students were injured after an accidental shooting at a Texas elementary school. Tuesday.
According to authorities, a 6-year-old boy brought a loaded firearm to Betsy Ross Elementary in northeast Houston. During lunch, the gun accidentally discharged a single bullet, striking the student in the leg and harming a 5-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy.
Local television station FOX26 said the students were not critically injured, but were taken from school on stretchers.
The school was temporarily placed on lockdown during the situation.
Approximately 471 students attend Betsy Ross Elementary. Two-thirds of students are African American, while Hispanic students account for a third. In the 2009-10 school year, 96 percent of students qualified for free lunch, while 49 percent were classified as “at risk.”
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