Texas student who fatally shot classmate did not intend to kill him, DA says.
The shooter and the victim knew each other and were not engaged in a dispute, Ogg said. “They were friendly; they were friends,” she said.After the shooting, the gunman fled, and he and a second person were arrested that evening, police have said. The second person, described as an adult, was released with no charges and was simply with the suspect when he was arrested, a police official said.
The handgun thought to have been used has not been recovered and may have been discarded while the suspect fled, the city said. "It's our information that the suspect brought the gun to school with him that morning,” Bellaire police Lt. Greg Bartlett said Wednesday.It was a .32-caliber semi-automatic pistol, Bartlett said. He said investigators do not know how the student got the gun inside the school.
Bartlett said that it was his understanding that several people saw the suspect with the gun that morning, but to his knowledge no one reported it to the police department. There were other people in the room when the shooting happened, he said.
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