14-YEAR OLD SHOOTS DAD DEAD, INJURES TWO OTHERS

A 14-year-old South Carolina boy shot and killed
his father then drove to an elementary school
playground where he shot and wounded two
children and a teacher with a handgun before
being tackled by a firefighter who held him till
the police arrived, authorities said on
Wednesday.
The suspect, whose name has not been
released, was accused by police of fatally
shooting his 47-year-old father, Jeffrey DeWitt
Osborne, then driving a pickup truck about 2
miles (3.2 km) to Townville Elementary School
where he crashed into a fence surrounding the
playground.
After the teenager began shooting, volunteer
firefighter Jamie Brock pinned him down while
staff led children to safety inside the building,
Anderson County emergency services director
Taylor Jones told a news conference. brock has
been credited for saving the lives of everyone
by tackling the suspect on time.
"(He) was there in the hot scene and
risked his life to mitigate this incident,"
Jones said. "He just used enough force
to take him to the ground."
Police arrived within seven minutes of a teacher
calling 911 to take the suspect into custody at
the school in Anderson County, near the
Georgia state line about 100 miles (160 km)
northeast of Atlanta. The shooter never entered
the building, said Chief Deputy Keith Smith.
One of the victims, a 6 year old boy who was
shot in the leg, remained in critical condition.
The other boy and a female teacher were
treated and released, said Ross Norton, a
spokesman for AnMed Health Medical Center.
His grandmother said the suspect was home-
schooled and that he had called he had called
her while he cried but didn't understand what
he was saying, so she went to visit her son,
Osborne where she found him dead from a
gunshot wound.
"She could not make out what he was
saying because he was crying and upset
and so they went to the house ... and
that's when she discovered her son and
called 911," coroner Greg Shore told a
news conference on Wednesday night.
Immediately after the shooting, armed officers
guarded students as they were evacuated from
the school and taken by bus to a nearby
church, local media said. Television images
showed police swarming the school, with some
officers on the roof while others moved around
the building.




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