4 wounded, 14-year-old charged in Ohio school shooting

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[h=4]4 wounded, 14-year-old charged in Ohio school shooting[/h]None of the wounded students suffered life-threatening injuries, school officials said.

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Anthony Dwyer, Chief Deputy of the Butler County Sheriff's Office, discusses a shooting at Madison High School in Ohio.

Bree Martin, a third-grader, hugs a family member as she is picked up from school. Bree said she heard a gunshot before her school was placed on lockdown Monday.(Photo: Keith BieryGolick)

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio*—*A 14-year-old male student shot two other male teen students*in the cafeteria of a Butler County school about 11:30 a.m. Monday.
A third boy and a girl*were injured either by shrapnel or while trying to get out of the shooting area at the Madison Jr/Sr High School in Madison Township, Butler County Sheriff Rick Jones said.
James Austin Hancock is the suspected shooter, Jones said. He is in custody and has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault, one count of inducing panic and making terrorist threats, all felonies.
"Imagine you're eating lunch, and all of a sudden there's an active shooter," Jones said.
The two boys*shot, Cameron Smith, 15, and Cooper Caffrey, 14, are in*stable condition. The boys' injuries are not considered to be life-threatening, Jones said.
"You see these things all over the country," Jones said. "You think it can't happen to you but it does."
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Jones said the shooter used what appears to be a .380-caliber handgun. He said the shooter ran from the school but is in custody and the weapon has been recovered.
Jones said the investigators have an idea of the shooter's motive but are not releasing it yet.
The two others injured were*Bryant Murray, 14, and *Katherine Doucette, 14.
The two struck by gunshots, Smith and Caffrey,*were taken to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton via medical helicopter.*Dr. Peter Ekeh said he believes both students will make a full recovery and will be released in a few days.
Ekeh said it is not know*how many time each*teens was shot, however, they each suffered multiple injuries.*"They were awake and alert when they reached us," Ekeh said.
He said*one student is*being evaluated to determine if further orthopedic surgery is required.
Sharon Howard, site manager for public and community relations at the hospital, said the other two injured in the incident, Doucette and Murray,*were not brought to Miami Valley Dayton.

Madison Junior/Senior High School in Butler County, Ohio.*(Photo: Madison Jr./Sr. High website)

All schools in the district in Butler County's Madison Local School District*were placed*on lockdown after the shooting. The lockdown was lifted shortly after 12:45 p.m.
Roads to the school were backed up with parents and relatives trying to get to the school to pick up students.
Bob Hollister, whose grandson attends the school, said he had been sitting in his daughter's van for about 45 minutes when the lockdown was lifted. He described the last few hours as "chaotic."
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Zayd Ahmed,*an 11th-grader, says it is surreal that shooter was a 14-year-old.
Ahmed was in the library printing a resume assignment for class. He said the library is real close to the lunch room.*When he heard shots, he and other students huddled in a storage closet. They didn't know what was happening for*about an hour, Ahmed said.
Madison Local Schools is a district of about 1,500 students overall. The junior/senior high school has about 750 students, according to the school’s webpage.
More schools plan*for shootings
In the not-so-distant past, there was no such thing as a school-shooting drill. And then, it became common for students to practice going on lockdown, huddling together in their classrooms, barricading doors and windows.
Now, most trainings are a little more proactive. Students are taught to get away if they can, but if they can’t, they’re encouraged to fight back– to throw books or chairs, whatever they can do to stop an assailant.
In 2007, Ohio passed a law requiring schools to file safety plans with the state. It’s the what-if blueprint for any kind of emergency – a tornado, an oil spill, a nearby train wreck or, as in Monday’s case, a shooting.

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A law enforcement official says a shooting at a southwestern Ohio school district injured four students, with two shot and two hurt some other way. (Feb. 29) AP

Those plans are online and accessible to law enforcement, so when officers are responding to a scene, they have a better idea what to expect.
Each plan for each district is different, said Ohio Attorney General’s Office spokesman Dan Tierney, created in conjunction with police, firefighters and other first responders.
“The important thing was to get the community partners involved,” Tierney said. “One-size-fits-all is not going to work in the state of Ohio.”
The advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety says there have been at least 168 shootings at schools in the U.S. since 2013. In Ohio, the group counts:
Contributing: Hannah Sparling, Cameron Knight, Patrick Brennan, Cara Owsley and Carrie Cochran.
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