A shooting in Minn and a VERY Close Call here in Racine...

And right across the street from where I work.
What IS this world coming to???

Read on:
(Taken from JSOnline.com)
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Racine Case student arrested with sawed-off shotgun
Classmates say he had talked about killing other students
By MEGAN TWOHEYmtwohey@journalsentinel.com
Posted: March 22, 2005

Mount Pleasant - A student at Racine Case High School was arrested this morning after police caught him carrying a sawed-off shotgun in the hallway, said Lt. Tom Petersen of the Mount Pleasant Police Department.

The boy's motivation for carrying the gun was unknown, Petersen said.
But Case Principal Tom Sager said the incident was particularly unnerving given yesterday's shooting rampage at a Minnesota high school. A boy in Bemidji killed seven people at his high school before shooting himself.

"We have no knowledge of a connection," Sager said. "But it's crossed our mind. It worries me."
Sager said the student hadn't been caught before carrying a gun or fighting. However, students who knew him said he was a gang member. They said that he had been talking in recent weeks about killing other students.

"He was in a gang," said Brian Johnson, a junior. "He was making comments a week ago during lunch and passing periods saying, 'I'm gonna kill some of these [expletive].' "
Around 9:30 a.m., a girl told a police officer who works at the school that the boy was carrying a gun, Sager said. Several minutes later, the police officer and a hall monitor stopped the boy in the hallway and found the gun, he said.

"I saw it happen," said Tashia Carr, a senior. "I heard someone say - 'I told him not to bring it.' People knew he had it. He had been talking about it."
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Like I said...what is the world coming to?
This high school is located directly across the street from the Racine Marriott Hotel that I work at.

Happy Tuesday