2 STUDENTS INJURED IN ROSWELL MID-SCHOOL SHOOTING

A SHOOTING AT BERRENDO MIDDLE SCHOOL IN ROSWELL THIS MORNING LEAVES TWO STUDENTS INJURED. STATE POLICE CHIEF PETE KASSETAS SAYS ONE OF HIS OFFICERS WAS AT THE SCHOOL WHEN HE WAS CALLED IN BY THE PRINCIPAL WHO TOLD HIM THERE WAS A SHOOTING IN THE GYM. HE SAYS THE GUN WAS ALREADY ON THE GROUND WHEN THE OFFICER ARRIVED ON SCENE. KASSETAS SAYS THE BOY APPARENTLY BROUGHT THE GUN IN TO THE SCHOOL IN A BAG. A TEACHER HAD CONVINCED THE ALLEGED SHOOTER, A 12 YEAR OLD BOY, TO DROP THE GUN. THE INJURED STUDENTS, A 12 YEAR OLD BOY AND 13 YEAR OLD GIRL, ARE HOSPITALIZED IN LUBBOCK, TEXAS.