Student Takes teacher and 23 others offered

On Monday, a student armed with a handgun entered A High School in Marinette Wis. and proceeded to hold 23 students and a teacher hostage. The incident began after 3 p.m., just before school let out. A male student entered a classroom at Marinette High School carrying a handgun. He kept the class of 23 and the teacher in the room for approximately five hours, before allowing them to go free. As pressure from the police mounted, the gunman turned and shot himself. The hostages were found to be unharmed, and the gunman was taken to a local hospital, where his condition is still not known at the time of this publishing. The Chief of the Marinette police, Skorik, said that the armed student had no demands during the standoff and provided no sense of why he had taken hostages. Investigators met with his parents, publicly unnamed, as the standoff continued. Families of the students trapped at the school gathered in a room at the local courthouse in Marinette, as the ordeal unfolded. The authorities became aware of the hostage situation after receiving a call from a school administrator.

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By Myah Tolbert