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There was a shooting just down the road from my house the Thursday before last. It's surprising that I never noticed it. Well, maybe I did, but there's always some sort of screaming or shouting going on from over there, so I probably just shrugged my shoulders. I found out the Monday after from my Girl Scout troup.

What had happened is one boy, about the age of 14, shot another kid named Nick, also the same age. Nick was a very close friend to a girl in my troup. Nick is stabilized and in the hospital right now. He needed a liver transplant, he lost his gull bladder, and there's quite a lot of damage. There's a chance he'll recover, but his life will never be the same. What's even more depressing, though, was that the Monday the newpaper reported it, another girl in my Girl Scout troup had an article on the same page about the poem she write about heros.

For the longest time we were wondering why Nick was shot, it was a WTF moment. Nick was a good kid, a bit spastic, but good. But the police were doing investigations to find out how they got ahold of the gun to find that they were planning to blow up a portion on thier school, shoot the principle, and maybe even some of the students.

Good thing I only go to that school for one period. >__>;;


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  • User Comments: [3]
    ........0.0 yeah that's a defanit WTF moment. Oh my goodness! Rose goes to that school! And Kelly (Umm not who you're thinking) AND a butt ton of my really good friends! What if they had...No wait I'm not even going there. I hope Nick getts better. Goog greif what is happening to this place?

    comment Lady_Darkness003 · Community Member · Fri Mar 31, 2006 @ 02:43am
    If I had a child that went to CKJH, I would have transferred them out last year during all of the bomb threats. >__>
    I also hope Nick gets better soon. gonk Despite the fact that he was one of the kids that was going to shoot up the school. I had forgotten another part of the story; the kid that shot Nick shot him with his own gun. His father bought him a gun some years ago, and would take him to shooting ranges to learn how to shoot it. He was taught to shoot for center mass of a target, and he knew what he was doing when he shot Nick. He had taught Nick and one other kid how to shoot the gun. They had an elaborate plan to trade off the gun and switch it between kids throughout the schoolday. Not to mention the police had found most of the elements needed to make a pipe bomb.

    Can you beleive all this? And it started because the kid that shot Nick was mad at the school because of a punishment he received for screwing around on the bus.

    ... Wait, I still don't know why Nick was shot. gonk

    comment Leamony · Community Member · Fri Mar 31, 2006 @ 03:51am
    it's probably really sickening that I am so unphased by this news due to living in Chicago for so long.

    comment Your Wettest Nightmare · Community Member · Fri Mar 31, 2006 @ 09:14pm
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