What was your schools huge scandal?

I grew up in a small-ish town. When I was about 14 there was a school shooting incident that resulted in a student being grazed in the head with a bullet.

The guy who shot her was an older man who lived relatively close to the school. I remember reading the local newspaper report how he claimed he was “cleaning his gun” and it was a “misfire”. In hindsight, that excuse made almost no sense considering where he lived and how close the shot was directly into a classroom window. He was never arrested or charged.

Luckily the student wasn’t seriously injured, but the entire student body was definitely a little traumatized after that.

Looking back on it, it seems incredibly strange that the entire thing was kept so hush-hush. I guess it wasn’t necessarily a huge scandal since it wasn’t brought to public attention outside of our small town, but shocking nonetheless. I still think in about that incident and wonder about what screwed up connections that man must’ve had with the town to have gotten away with shooting into a public school and injuring and child...

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