The other teacher who was hurt was treated at the scene and did not need hospitalization, authorities said. The two students who were wounded and one of the injured teachers were rushed to Barcelona hospitals for treatment. “Other students would pick on him,” she added. They left along with other students only after a fire alarm sounded, she said.Īnother student, Paula Amayuelas, told the Associated Press that she knew the suspect personally and that he “didn’t have problems but he was kind of a loner.” Students and parents are bused away from the school after the crossbow attack. The substitute, who was not named, died at the scene, authorities said.Īfter killing the sub, the teen targeted a third teacher and another student, wounding them both before being taken into custody by police.Īuthorities did not disclose specific details of how the attack played out, but Jarque explained that she and others hid in her classroom after hearing the screams. “We saw the teacher lying on the floor in a pool of blood,” Jarque recalled. When he entered, the boy abruptly shot him, according to Spanish media. “So we shut ourselves inside our classroom in order to be safe.”Ī substitute teacher, who had only worked at the school teaching social studies for about a week, heard their cries from his classroom and ran over to help. “We were just starting the class and suddenly we heard screams,” said Gemma Jarque, a student in another class who managed to hide and escape with others. He then set his sights on his classmates, striking the teacher’s daughter, who was also a student. A woman outside the school after a student killed a substitute teacher with a makeshift crossbow. When the teen was chastised by his teacher for not being on time, the boy snapped - pulling out the crossbow and firing it at her head. Monday’s bloodshed began around 9:30 a.m., after the unidentified student arrived late for his 8 a.m. A regional police spokesman said it was too early to determine whether the vicious onslaught was an attempt to copycat the shooting in Colorado, where two students gunned down 12 classmates and one teacher before killing themselves.
The unidentified student was detained by police following the attack, which unfolded Monday morning in Barcelona exactly 16 years to the day of the Columbine High School massacre. A 13-year-old boy armed with a machete and a makeshift crossbow went on a deadly rampage at a school in Spain, killing a substitute teacher and wounding four others - but he won’t face criminal charges because of his age, authorities said.
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