WHERE DID THE GUN COME FROM?

GIRL SHOT AT OCHO RIOS HIGH WITH GUN BROUGHT BY SCHOOLMATE

OCHO RIOS, St Ann- June 17, 2024 UPDATED, UPDATED

Police are trying to determine how a 14-year-old boy came in possession of a gun that he took to Ocho Rios High School where a girl was shot in a classroom.

The 12-year-old girl shot at Ocho Rios High School, St Ann, on Monday, June 17 has been released from hospital after treatment of a wound to the thigh.

Two of her schoolmates are in police custody following the shooting when a gun accidentally went off.

Police confirmed that the incident happened at about 12:45 p.m. in a classroom at the school.

The girl was shot when a boy pulled the trigger of a gun, brought to school by a male classmate. The pistol was in the knapsack of a Grade 7 boy when the incident took place. Other boys had been called to check out the gun which was hidden in the knapsack.

The girl was struck by a bullet and taken by school staff to St Ann’s Bay Hospital. . Police officers from the Ocho Rios station rushed to the school which became a crime scene.

(SSP Dwight Powell says the School is fully behind the Safe Schools Programme) 

Investigators are trying to establish how the boy, from the Pineapple community, came in possession of the firearm and where it came from. Police believe it was stolen.

Listen to SSP Dwight Powell:

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