Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:34:40 -0700
From: weavert@PRIMENET.COM ("T. Weaver")
Subject: Teacher Shot Herself!!!
To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
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Makes you wonder about what other Manchurian candidates have been involved
with similar things but haven't been caught...or *were* caught (Peducah,
Pearl, etc.).
So tell me, politicians, why should we believe anything you say about gun
control?
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/stories/Story0605120.html
http://www.arizonarepublic.com/news/articles/0411AZ--TEACHERS.html
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/102/nation/Teacher_wounded_in_classroom_s:.shtml
Teacher wounded in classroom shot herself, school officials say
By Arthur H. Rotstein, Associated Press, 4/11/2000 17:54
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) A school teacher who reported being shot in her
classroom confessed to authorities that she shot herself.
Kathy Morris told authorities she did it to highlight the lack ofsecurity
at La Cima Middle School, Pima County sheriff's spokeswoman Deanna Coultas
said Tuesday.
''However, we're dealing with irrational thinking and irrational
behavior,'' Coultas said.
She said authorities were looking into other motives and past incidents
with the school but declined to elaborate, citing confidentiality issues.
Morris reported Monday that she had been shot in her classroom by a young
Hispanic man after excusing herself from a staff meeting. The shooting
occurred about 90 minutes befre students were scheduled to begin class. No
students were on the campus at the time, officials said.
Morris, 35, was in fair condition Tuesday at University Medical Center.
''Ms. Morris' allegation was destructive, damaging, and insulting to our
students and members of the district's minority community,'' district
Superintendent Robert J. Smith said Tuesday.
Smith said Morris had been placed on paid administrative leave pending an
investigation.
Coultas said investigators found a gun that had been fired once in a false
bottom of Morris' purse.
Coultas said Morris was not immediately facing any criminal charges, but
the Pima County attorney's office was seeking to have her sent to a mental
health facility.
A school custodian told investigators he heard a shot but there were no
witnesses, Coultas said.
After the shooting, sheriff's deputies, including SWAT officers, searched
the two-story school before expanding their search into the neighborhood.
After all other teachers and school personnel were accunted for, school
officials canceled classes Monday. Students returned to class Tuesday.