Student fires rifle in school - Kansas City Star

The boy, 13, shoots into a ceiling, but the gun jams before he can fire again. Staff and wire reports “This was quite well thought out. He had been planning this for a long time.” Joplin police Officer Curt Farmer JOPLIN, Mo. | The recent outbreak of school violence reached Missouri on Monday as a boy fired an assault rifle in a Joplin middle school. The incident injured no one but renewed questions about how to make schools safer. The 13-year-old student, wearing a dark-green trench ...