Student Shot at Fairmount, ND School | Video

Valley News Live | 10/11/2012

Classes are canceled and a high school student is in the hospital after shooting himself in school. The school in the small southeastern North Dakota town of Fairmount is letting students go home for the day and calling in counselors after a high school boy brought a gun to class and shot himself.

Principal Jay Townsend says the boy survived what officials believe was a suicide attempt Thursday morning. He says the boy did not threaten anyone else.

Townsend says the boy was taken to a hospital. He doesn`t know the boy`s condition, but says the boy was coherent.

The Richland County Sheriff`s Office says the incident at the K-12 school happened about 8:30 a.m. The school was put into lockdown for about an hour.

Townsend says the school has about 110 students. About 370 people live in the town.

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