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Boy Wrote 'U All Will Die' Before Shooting

By MARY FOSTER
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posted: 12 HOURS 38 MINUTES AGO
comments: 495
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LAROSE, La. (May 19) — A middle-school student who fired a gunshot at a teacher in a classroom and then shot himself left a handwritten journal and an apparent suicide note that described his intention to kill other people, authorities said.
The eighth-grade student, who has not been identified by authorities, was in critical condition early Tuesday after undergoing surgery following Monday's shooting. No one else was injured.
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Afterward, investigators found a profanity-laced note that said "U all will die."
"The letter indicated his intention was to kill people," Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said.
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The student left during homeroom Monday morning, a fellow student said. He went to the bathroom and changed from the khaki uniform pants the school requires to a pair of camouflaged pants. He then stormed into the classroom across the hall from the restroom — gun in hand, said Coley Gaspard, 14, who was in the room.
Investigators believe the boy chose the room because of its closeness to the restroom, not because he had any agenda concerning the teacher or students.
He tried to shoot the teacher, Webre said, but the gun did not fire.
Webre said the boy made an adjustment, then fired over the teacher's head. As he left the room he asked one of the students to go with him, but left alone when the youngster remained seated.
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He apparently returned to the bathroom and shot himself within minutes, Webre said.
The young man got the gun, a .25-caliber, nickel-plated semiautomatic, from his father's house during the weekend, Webre said.
The school has both standing and handheld metal detectors, but they aren't used all the time and weren't in use Monday. The school was scheduled to reopen Tuesday with enhanced security and several counselors on hand.
At another school about 100 miles away, deputies found an unloaded handgun in the backpack of a 15-year-old boy Monday.
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Authorities in East Baton Rouge told The Advocate newspaper that a teacher at a private school for grades 4 through 12 reported suspicions that the student had a weapon. The student, who was not named, was taken into juvenile detention on a count of carrying a weapon on school property.
The Larose school, with about 500 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders, is in a rural community of about 7,000 people, some 45 miles southwest of New Orleans.
Webre said the boy had no disciplinary problems at school and hadn't been in trouble with the law.
"He makes reference to himself as an outcast," Webre said, referring to the journal. "But nothing in his record reflects that."
He was a year or two older than most of his classmates who described him as a quiet boy who never talked about guns or violence.
The boy's mother said he seemed nervous before leaving for school, but when she asked him about it, he attributed it to getting the results of the "LEAP" tests that eighth-graders must pass to be promoted.
Gaspard said he was in his seventh-grade English and reading class when the boy came in. The teen yelled for everyone to get down, cursing at the class.
Nobody moved. Gaspard knew the boy, whom he described as quiet and nice, and thought it was a dramatic enactment for some sort of lesson. Then, he said, the boy walked over and pointed the gun at the teacher, ordering her to say, "Hail Marilyn Manson," referring to the shock-rock icon, Gaspard said.
She said nothing. After firing into the wall, the youngster told another boy to get up. The seventh-grader stayed in his seat, and the teen left.
Webre said he couldn't confirm Gaspard's account.
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ABurch9351

11:58 PMMay 20 2009

I read what someone said about the Child doing the shooting as being a certain color WRONG WAY TO THINK and if we ALLraces keep this up our CHILDREN WILL KEEP ON and ON HATEING We need to STOP THIS NOW.My GOD is colorblindWe are the HUMAN RACE period.Pray for the child but do not hate him because of his race hate the sin and the crime and yes punish him accordingly.

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Decsunflower

10:49 PMMay 20 2009

SLMYDL 09:05 PMMay 20 2009 THIS KID WAS EITHER WHITE OR ASIAN... THAT'S HOW THEY SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS, BY KILLING OTHER INNOCENT PEOPLE. TO ALL THE WHITE OR ASIAN PEOPLE GETTING MAD AT MY OPINION WELL YOU ALWAYS BRING UP THE RACE ISSUE ON HOW BLKS DONT WORK, HOW MIDDLE EASTERNS ARE TERRORISTS , HOW ALL HISPANICS ARE REALLY ILLEGAL MEXICANS,,AND BLAH BLAH BLAH ! WELL LET ME TELL YOU... AS HUMANS WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT ISSUES.. AND IM NOT JUDGING ANYBODY..BUT I WANTED TO POINT OUT YOUR WEAKNESSSES WE ALL ARE NOT ALL THAT PERFECT._________________________________________________________You as my other post I mentioned earlier are a piece of crap racist!! All races do this kind of stupid thing not just one or two, and it comes down to parenting. Parents need to pay attention to their children or not have any. And while reading your post I can tell that you are neither white or Asian because you said to the whites and asians getting mad at your post. You need to get a life an...

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Decsunflower

10:40 PMMay 20 2009

Gsan201 I did not see the second post until after I posted, I had to type the thing to post like 3 times to post my response, I think his post was wrong too however it is a little diff though not much.I felt he was implying that races other than white are not "regular"

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10:35 PMMay 20 2009

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Cherylsnc

10:24 PMMay 20 2009

THE QUESTION IS COLOR? THE ANSWER IS, RED AND YELLOW BLACK AND WHITE, THEY ARE PRECIOUS IN HIS SIGHT, JESUS LOVES THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD ! NOW, HATE ON THAT BUT, REMEMBER, GOD IS LOVE AND HE LOVES ALL NO MATTER WHAT. I'M A FIRM BELEIVER IN THAT! TEACH LOVE AND, NOT HATE !

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User18119

10:05 PMMay 20 2009

Cherylsnc, You hit the nail straigh on the head.

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Gsan201

09:57 PMMay 20 2009

JenitaliaJackson said: a bunch of racist stuff and this is why people hate each other Hate like hers begets hate!!! lol I do feel for you though because not only are you an ignorant racist but your parents named you "genitalia" CRUEL CRUEL parents no wonder she is so full of hate and bigotry.

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Gsan201

09:51 PMMay 20 2009

This guy is a racist piece of crap also but you failed to mention him ..I think they are both wrong but this guy hates 2 races not just 1 lol ////It is wrong no matter what but really irks me how you guys have such a Double standard when pointing out racism...it makes you bigots too when you excuse one group for being racist (LIKE THE MEDIA DOES) and then attack another!!! I'm just saying you need to not be so narrow minded.

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Gsan201

09:50 PMMay 20 2009

Decsunflower 09:08 PMMay 20 2009 ---snakeindagraz 08:21 PMMay 20 2009 WAS HE COLORED OR REGULAR _____Excuse me?????????????????????? You sure are a racist piece of garbage.---------Yes that is a wrong thing to say and it could have been anyone of any race to do that but why are you getting so upset by that comment and not this one by another racist????Are you that far liberal where you only get upset at a white person being ignorant?--------------------------------------------------------------- ----------SLMYDL 09:05 PMMay 20 2009 THIS KID WAS EITHER WHITE OR ASIAN... THAT'S HOW THEY SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS, BY KILLING OTHER INNOCENT PEOPLE. TO ALL THE WHITE OR ASIAN PEOPLE GETTING MAD AT MY OPINION WELL YOU ALWAYS BRING UP THE RACE ISSUE ON HOW BLKS DONT WORK, HOW MIDDLE EASTERNS ARE TERRORISTS , HOW ALL HISPANICS ARE REALLY ILLEGAL MEXICANS,,AND BLAH BLAH BLAH ! WELL LET ME TELL YOU... AS HUMANS WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT ISSUES.. AND IM NOT JUDGING ANYBODY..BUT I WANTED TO POINT OUT YOU...

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Fmcevoy

09:45 PMMay 20 2009

I'm sorry, but I doubt that this kid wasn't putting out any signs that he was in distress. I just get a sense that he was really lonely and isolated, conditions that can be remedied. Easily. Someone was asleep at the switch.

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