11:05: — The shooting victim was Cade Poulos, 13, Stillwater police told The Daily O’Collegian, the Oklahoma State University campus newspaper.
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10:30 a.m. — “Everyone thought it was a joke at first,” ninth-grader Ashlyn Lundholm told the Stillwater NewsPress. “Then I heard people screaming. Then we went to lockdown for 35 to 40 minutes.”
An eighth-grade student told the newspaper he witnessed the shooting. “I saw him on the ground,” Aaron Veselak said. “There was blood all around his head.” Dickerson told the NewsPress that “the hallway was probably full of kids that time of day.”
Superintendent Ann Caine said counselors would be available for students.
“It is with a heavy heart that I inform you of a tragic incident at our (school) this morning,” Caine said in a letter to parents. “At 7:50 a.m. one of our students died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number is (800) 273-TALK (8255), according to Pam McKeown, Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
10:10 a.m. — Students were in the hallway when the shooting took place at 7:50 a.m. before classes started Wednesday, Stillwater police Capt. Randy Dickerson said. Police are not releasing the victim’s name pending notification of the parents. Dickerson said he had not heard that bullying might be tied to the self-inflected shooting, but it is early in the investigation.
9:51 a.m. — The victim of a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound at Stillwater Junior High School is a student and the shooting occurred at 7:50 a.m.
9:36 a.m. — A spokeswoman in the Stillwater Public Schools office of the superintendent said other schools in that district are remaining in session today. She said, “Certainly, if a parent wants to pick up a child they have that option as a parent.” Stillwater Junior High School students have been bused to Cimarron Plaza in Stillwater.
9:15 a.m. — Stillwater police have confirmed one person is dead of a self-inflicted injury. Campus police found the victim in the hallway of the school, police said.
8:45 a.m. — Stillwater police were called to Stillwater Junior High School on Wednesday where one person was injured in an apparent shooting incident, officials said.
“We do not have an active shooter,” a police dispatcher said. “There is an injury.”
The dispatcher would not comment on what type of shooting happened at the school.
“There has been a situation at the junior high and we are in lockdown mode right now and we are going to send the students, the entire student body to another location, we are busing them for their parents to pick them up,” a woman answering the telephone at the Stillwater Public Schools office of the superintendent said. Superintendent Ann Caine was on the scene at Stillwater Junior High School.
