oh FFS: Six students shot at bus stop in Las Vegas

[MonkeyFunk]

banner on MSNBC.com right now.

What the fuck is WRONG with this country?!?


Edit: here's a link

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/12/america/NA-GEN-US-Bus-Stop-Shooting.php

[DesertRat]

1. Horrible news. Why so many mass shootings?!

:cry:

[slackmaster]

5. This one will turn out to be gang-related

Another article says a police gang unit is investigating, and the shooting may be related to a previous altercation.

[AlCzervik]

2. here----

LAS VEGAS: Six middle or high school students were shot Tuesday after they got off a school bus in Las Vegas, and two were critically hurt, police said.

Gunshots rang out just before 2 p.m., Officer Bill Cassell said.

Six young people were transported to area hospitals. Four had minor gunshot injuries and two were in critical condition, Cassell said.

At least two people are believed to have taken part in the shootings, he said. Police were not saying whether the shooting suspects were on foot or in a vehicle.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/12/america/NA-GEN-US-Bus-Stop-Shooting.php

[MonkeyFunk]

4. Thank you Chimp

I'll add the link to the OP.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

3. Not the country, necessarily

Might have something to do with it being the most wonderful time of the year. Lotta people can't take it.

[Breeze54]

6. Las Vegas is infested with gangs. Was this in North Las Vegas?

I haven't read the link you provided. sorry.

[Bluebear]

7. Far NE by Nellis AFB

[Breeze54]

9. That's N LV and it's highly infested with drugs and gangs.

:(

It's a real shame.

I used to live in that area when I was going to college the 2nd time. And for all things...
Juvenile Criminal Justice. It was sort of dangerous then, I can only imagine now...

[MonkeyFunk]

10. the article doesn't say where.

[Breeze54]

13. The shooting happened just before 2 p.m. Tuesday near Walnut and Alexander roads.

Walnut is in North Las Vegas. I lived right down the street about a mile or so.

2 Teens Critical After Shooting
Shootings May Be Gang-Related, Students Say

POSTED: 2:03 pm PST December 11, 2007
http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/14825477/detail.html

LAS VEGAS --

Paramedics said that two of the six teens shot at a school bus stop shooting
are in critical condition at University Medical Center.

The shooting happened just before 2 p.m. Tuesday near Walnut and Alexander roads.

Students said they were exiting a school bus from Mojave High School when two teens
shot six to 10 rounds at fellow riders. One girl and five boys were injured, two of
whom were shot in the stomach and the rest in extremities.

The two students who were shot in the torso have been listed in critical condition,
paramedics said. They did not say how the other four teens were doing, but all of them
were receiving treatment at UMC within 30 minutes of the shooting, emergency crews said.

Police are still searching for the two shooters, but they have lifted lockdown orders
on Cox Elementary.

Unconfirmed reports from students said the shooting may have resulted from a gang-related
argument Monday on the same bus route.

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My son went to kindergarten at Cox Elementary. Scary area.

[MonkeyFunk]

15. thanks

this is just a nightmare for a lot of families.

[Breeze54]

17. Your Welcome...now you know why I moved out of there!

It was just to dangerous and there was no way my son was going to go to school there.
As it was, he had to repeat kindergarten because they did a really shitty job.
We moved back east. Whew! But that was 14 years ago and I've never looked back.

[opihimoimoi]

8. The Nation has crazy peeps running it.....whats so diff about the citizens?

[MonkeyFunk]

11. Atrocities like this occurred long before this administration

as much as it's easy to blame Bush for everything, something a little deeper is going on.

[progressivebydesign]

12. I think it's a gang thing cuz they're using the gang task force on it. n/t

[Bluebear]

14. Not only a bus stop but a SCHOOL BUS stop.

:mad:

[MonkeyFunk]

16. I know!

It's horrifying.

[ecstatic]

18. I'm going to think twice before joining any mass gatherings this season

Whether it's just holiday sales or watching the ball drop on NYE. :scared: