Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 1, 1995 TAG: 9511010039
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press|
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Medium
The wounded - two boys and two girls - are students at John F. Kennedy High School. Henrico County police Sgt. R.E. Loving said a man opened fire with a pistol as students left the school, then ran off.
``It was at the end of the school day and they had been dismissed,'' said school spokeswoman Bettye Bellamy. ``There was someone waiting across the street from the school.''
``All of a sudden, there was ... a violation on my students ... that was from outside the school,'' Principal Ethan Pitts said.
Henrico police are investigating the shootings because Kennedy, a Richmond public school with 800 students, is in adjacent Henrico County.
The wounded students were taken to Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond.
A hospital spokesman said Shantell Byrd, 17, was in critical but stable condition early Tuesday. Relatives said doctors operated Monday night on the junior, who had been shot in the back.
The spokesman said Saaeda Pulliam, 16, a junior, was in stable condition. Jarshima Roberson, 16, a junior, and senior Clifford Hill were treated and released.
Police said the suspect was in his late teens. City Manager Robert C. Bobb said police told him the gunman was armed with a 9mm pistol.
Loving said police had not established a motive for the shootings.
``It appears that none of the kids had any connection, other than that they all were just leaving school,'' Mayor Leonidas B. Young said.
Richmond school superintendent Patricia Conn said security at the school would be beefed up Tuesday. She also said psychologists and social workers would be at the school to counsel students.
by CNB