


Some students were slowly boarding the buses.Įveryone on campus, including teachers, was taken to a nearby church. Helicopter footage from WYFF-TV showed dozens of officers walking around outside the school with more than two dozen buses lined up. and more than 200 deputies and other law enforcement officers rushed to the school, Lewis said. We love Jamari dearly,” the family said in a statement released by community justice group Fighting Injustice Together.Ī police officer at the school called in the shooting and requested emergency backup around 12:30 p.m. “We are all devastated by today’s tragedy. AP The boys knew each other, but investigators are trying to figure out what led to the shooting in a front part of Tanglewood Middle School. Law enforcement responds to a shooting at Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville, S.C., on March 31, 2022. The family of the boy killed released a statement saying he was Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson and asking people to respect their privacy as they grieve. The boys knew each other, but the sheriff said investigators are still trying to figure out what led to the shooting in a front part of the school and how the boy got the gun. “I don’t think he knew what to do, honestly, except for to leave the school.” He’s a young man, probably didn’t understand the consequences of what had just happened,” the sheriff said at a news conference. He was taken to a juvenile prison in Columbia, Lewis said. The boy is charged with murder, possession of a firearm at a school and possession of a weapon by someone under 18. The shooter was found hiding under a deck at a home not far from Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville about an hour after the shooting and was still armed, Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis said. South Carolina house fire kills six, suspect arrested for trying to murder sole survivorĪ 12-year-old student was shot and killed Thursday by another 12-year-old student inside their South Carolina middle school, authorities said. Man arrested after human remains found stuffed in barrel floating on South Carolina lake Suspected killer escapes from prison after doing pullups inside gym, using bed sheets as a ropeĦ9-year-old woman killed by alligator -which was ‘guarding’ her body - while walking dog in Hilton Head
