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Shooting Outside High School
January 5, 2005 --A teenager was shot in the head outside a North Philadelphia high school.
Neither the victim nor the suspected shooter are believed to be Dobbins students but a school district official acknowledges the students were in harm's way.
Michelle Giles/DOBBINS SOPHOMORE:
"Everything seemed cool. It was like a regular school day, that's when somebody came up. I don't know from which direction and started shooting and everybody started scattering."
There was a volley of shots outside Dobbins High School right about the time school had let out. When the gunfire was over, a 18-year-old man was in the street bleeding from his head while students
scurried to safety at the school gymnasium.
Even with a heavy police presence,
many were hesitant to venture out and walk on their way home.
Brittany Gregory/DOBBINS SOPHOMOOLIE:
"I'm trying to catch a bus so I don't have to walk down the street."
School district officials say while they are pleased that with the response of security personnel to keep other children from injury, there is no comfort in knowing this latest gunshot victim was not enrolled here.
Vincent Thompson/PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL DISTRICT:
"We take violence against anyone seriously and we are asking anyone with information, somebody's gotta know it happened at 22nd and Lehigh which is one of the busiest intersections in the city. Please contact Philadelphia police."
Thompson says the gunshot victim is a dropout from the district. Students have reported hearing at least five shots. At this time we have no word of any arrests.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/010505_nw...olshooting.html
Shooting Outside High School
January 5, 2005 --A teenager was shot in the head outside a North Philadelphia high school.
Neither the victim nor the suspected shooter are believed to be Dobbins students but a school district official acknowledges the students were in harm's way.
Michelle Giles/DOBBINS SOPHOMORE:
"Everything seemed cool. It was like a regular school day, that's when somebody came up. I don't know from which direction and started shooting and everybody started scattering."
There was a volley of shots outside Dobbins High School right about the time school had let out. When the gunfire was over, a 18-year-old man was in the street bleeding from his head while students
scurried to safety at the school gymnasium.
Even with a heavy police presence,
many were hesitant to venture out and walk on their way home.
Brittany Gregory/DOBBINS SOPHOMOOLIE:
"I'm trying to catch a bus so I don't have to walk down the street."
School district officials say while they are pleased that with the response of security personnel to keep other children from injury, there is no comfort in knowing this latest gunshot victim was not enrolled here.
Vincent Thompson/PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL DISTRICT:
"We take violence against anyone seriously and we are asking anyone with information, somebody's gotta know it happened at 22nd and Lehigh which is one of the busiest intersections in the city. Please contact Philadelphia police."
Thompson says the gunshot victim is a dropout from the district. Students have reported hearing at least five shots. At this time we have no word of any arrests.