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January 11, 2013
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Student tells Calif. teacher: ‘I don’t want to shoot you’

TAFT, Calif. (AP) — The 16-year-old boy had just wounded a classmate he claimed had bullied him, fired two more rounds at students fleeing their first-period science class then faced teacher Ryan Heber. “I don’t want to shoot you,” he told the popular teacher, who was trying to coax the teen into giving up the shotgun he still held. Recounting the suspect’s words, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said the confrontation was enough of a distraction to give 28 students time to escape their classroom Thursday at Taft High School. The violence came just minutes after administrators had announced new …

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