School shooting attempt ends in suicide

A 14-year-old is dead following an attempted school shooting Thursday in Richmond, Indiana.

Police say the suspect was not a student at the school.

Authorities also said that the teen attempted to get into the school but because it was on lockdown he couldn’t get in, so he shot out a window.

That teen took his own life after a brief shootout with police at the intermediate school.

All Richmond schools were put on lockdown around 8:30 a.m. Police confronted the suspect as he approached Dennis Intermediate School in Richmond. Officers and the suspect wound up exchanging gunfire. A witness said the shootout happened first outside, then inside the school building.

“Local police had received information and they reacted on that very swiftly, and I think because of their swift reaction and also the swift reaction at the school that no student injuries happened,” Indiana State Police Sgt. John Bowling told reporters. He didn’t explain what that information was.

Eventually, the teen took his own life, according to police.

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