# Well, American schools are getting back to normal--there's a shooting **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-american-schools-are-getting-back-to-normal-theres-a-shooting/939871 "2021-04-12T20:53:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-american-schools-are-getting-back-to-normal-theres-a-shooting/939871/1 "2021-04-12T20:53:02Z")
Still breaking, few details. First school mass shooting since Covid? > **[The officer involved in a shooting at a Knoxville high school is identified as...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/12/us/knoxville-school-shooting/index.html)** > > The officer involved in a shooting at a Knoxville high school on Monday has been identified, according to a tweet from the Knoxville Police Department Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-american-schools-are-getting-back-to-normal-theres-a-shooting/939871/2 "2021-04-12T21:57:37Z")
Update: 1 dead, police officer injured. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-american-schools-are-getting-back-to-normal-theres-a-shooting/939871/3 "2021-04-12T21:59:43Z")
Is the shooter dead? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-american-schools-are-getting-back-to-normal-theres-a-shooting/939871/4 "2021-04-13T01:12:08Z")
Damn. This is in addition to the fact that there’s been a shooting of some kind every day somewhere in the country. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-american-schools-are-getting-back-to-normal-theres-a-shooting/939871/5 "2021-04-13T01:28:17Z")
> A police officer was wounded in a shooting at a high school in Knoxville, Tennessee, authorities said Monday. Officials said the person who shot the officer, a student at Austin-East Magnet High School, died at the scene when police returned fire. > > At 3:15 p.m. local time, police responded to a report of a male who was possibly armed in the school. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch said police found the suspect in a school restroom. Police ordered him out, but he refused. > > Rausch said that as police entered the restroom, he “reportedly fired shots, striking an officer.” One officer returned fire, and the student was pronounced dead at the scene. There are no other known gunshot victims, police said. > **[Tennessee high school student killed in officer-involved shooting in school...](https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/school-shooting-tennessee-knoxville-student-killed/)** > > There's no active threat to the public and the Austin-East Magnet High School has been secured, officials said. > After saying earlier that one person had been detained, the authorities stated on Monday night that the individual might have been a witness. > **[Tennessee High School Student Is Killed After Shooting at Police, Authorities...](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/12/us/knoxville-tennessee-school-shooting)** > > A police officer was seriously injured in the episode at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville on Monday. So my first impression is that the student’s death could have been prevented if the police had simply waited outside the restroom instead of rushing in. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-american-schools-are-getting-back-to-normal-theres-a-shooting/939871/6 "2021-04-13T02:32:11Z")
I saw on another website that this has been the FIFTH fatal shooting of a student who attended this school, although none of the others were at the school. One of them was a youngster who was declared missing last fall but not found until March. > **[Police say progress being made in investigations involving Austin-East...](https://www.wvlt.tv/2021/03/10/timeline-4-austin-east-students-have-been-killed-in-shootings-in-2021/)** > > Four teenaged Austin-East High School students have been killed as the result of multiple shootings in Knoxville just since the beginning of 2021. It’s only national news because a police officer was involved, and it appears to have been a semi-successful murder/suicide.