Middle school focuses on recovery as authorities investigate shooting of armed student

Wisconsin authorities are promising a thorough probe into a constabulary shooting that they said killed an equipped pupil extracurricular a mediate school

MOUNT HOREB, Wis. -- Wisconsin authorities connected Thursday promised a thorough probe of the fatal constabulary shooting of a pupil who they accidental was equipped extracurricular a mediate school, arsenic families successful the assemblage gathered to comfortableness 1 another.

Authorities did not merchandise further details Thursday connected the enquiry being led by the Wisconsin Department of Justice and person not released the sanction of the student.

"When faced with a deadly threat, they responded with deadly force," Mount Horeb Police Chief Doug Vierck wrote successful a Facebook station asking for patience with the ongoing investigation. “No officers, students, oregon unit were injured different than the equipped individual.”

Authorities person not said whether the pupil fired a weapon, pointed 1 astatine constabulary oregon what benignant of limb helium had.

The mediate schoolhouse locked down for hours Wednesday on with a adjacent precocious schoolhouse and simple school, and did not merchandise students until good into the afternoon. The territory reported aft 8 p.m. that each students had been reunited with family.

Attorney General Josh Kaul connected Wednesday nighttime mostly declined to reply questions astir what happened erstwhile constabulary arrived astatine Mount Horeb Middle School, saying helium could not compromise the investigation.

Mount Horeb Area School District did not clasp classes Thursday. On its Facebook page, the territory said a abstraction astatine the precocious schoolhouse hosted a assemblage gathering for families.

“Our assemblage has experienced a corporate situation and unneurotic we volition supply enactment and enactment toward recovery,” said a connection attributed to Superintendent Steve Salerno.

Law enforcement successful Mount Horeb and Dane County connected Thursday referred each questions to the Department of Justice. The tiny colony is astir 25 miles (40 kilometers) westbound of the authorities superior of Madison.