Like he learned from it, but I wouldn’t say he regrets it, just because it does seem harmless.” The student who estimates he and friends shot about 60 people that day tells WW: “I think he learned like, maybe you shouldn’t do that. He says he “kind of realized how dumb it was” and that he didn’t intend to shoot random people again. He says his gun was confiscated, he was suspended for two weeks, and he had an expulsion hearing that resulted in two weeks of classes in a disciplinary program that trains students in conflict and emotional regulation.
“It is our long-standing practice that we do not share details about incidents involving students, due to student confidentiality,” Vandehey says.īut the student whom the district identified and punished spoke to WW about what he did March 10 and was also willing to say how the school disciplined him. Much of parents’ frustration stems from the district’s refusal to disclose what specific disciplinary action was taken against students involved in the incident.
After the car passes and shoots at the crowd of students lined up outside of Blind Onion, one of the boys in the car yells, “Nobody’s safe, man!” The guns make the signature popping noise of an authentic firearm. (Verdict: It didn’t hurt too badly.)Ī video taken by a shooter from inside one of the cars shows four high school boys shooting bright orange guns out the window as they drive down 33rd. He had bought a SplatRBall gun the day before and tested it on himself to see how it felt. We all kind of talked about it and were like, ‘Let’s do this. The student, whose name WW is withholding because he is 16 years old, estimates he and his friends, all Grant students, shot around 60 people, most of whom were fellow high schoolers. WW spoke to one of the students who participated in the SplatRBall shootings. “In the world we live in today, with the increase in violence, it is really difficult not to imagine that this could be a precursor to something worse. “All we’re asking for is clear accountability and an apology,” his mother says. He says most of the shots hit his jacket, but one hit him in the neck-and it stung. A junior at Grant this year, he was hit at least five times as he walked back to school along Northeast 33rd Avenue. The mother of another student who was shot March 10 requested anonymity so her son wouldn’t be targeted again. The similarity is not lost on students and parents at Grant, who might have once dismissed SplatRBall shootings as obnoxious horseplay but now demand that the school district take them seriously.
mass shootings, including the recent slaughter of 19 children and two teachers at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school. But gel guns, even from a short distance, resemble assault rifles-the type of firearm used in nearly all U.S.
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