911 calls students capture panic amid Nevada school shooting - New York Daily News

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[h=4]Kevin Clifford/AP[/h] A Sparks Middle School student cries with family members after being released from Agnes Risley Elementary School Monday after a shooting at his school.

Newly released 911 calls capture the panic and confusion at a Nevada middle school where a 12-year-old boy fatally shot a teacher and wounded two other students on Monday.
The shooting began shortly after the 7 a.m. bell at Sparks Middle School in the Reno suburb of Sparks, near the California border.
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"Somebody brought a gun to school, they shot a teacher," a panicked student told a 911 dispatcher in one recording broadcast on local mynews4.com.
"The teacher's down?" the dispatcher said.

[h=4]Facebook[/h] [h=4]Michael Landsberry, a math teacher at Sparks Middle School outside Reno, Nev., was trying to get the shooter to put down his gun.  [/h]
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"Yes … they shot again," the boy said.
In another call, a boy hiding out with several other students said the gunman was by the school's basketball court, but he wasn't sure if he was still armed.
"Do they still have the gun?" the dispatcher asked.
"I don't know, we're all crammed here … just please come," the terrified boy said.

[h=4]Marilyn Newton/AP[/h] [h=4]Law enforcement personnel gather at the scene  on Monday.[/h]
Frustration crept into the dispatcher's voice as she received call after call about the violence.
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At one point, she told another she did not have a description of the shooter because "nobody can tell me anything."
Amid the chaos, most of the 700 seventh- and eighth-grade enrolled students at the school were evacuated to the nearby high school as between 150 and 200 police officers rushed to the scene, law enforcement said.
The shooter, who carried out the rampage with a semiautomatic handgun, eventually committed suicide, officials said.

[h=4]Marilyn Newton/AP[/h] [h=4]A tearful Michelle Hernandez (left) is led away from Agnes Risley Elementary School on Monday. A student at the middle school opened fire on campus just before the starting bell Monday, wounding two boys and killing a teacher.[/h]
His name was not released.
The wounded students, both 12, were listed in stable condition. One was shot in the shoulder and the other in the abdomen.
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Math teacher and military veteran Michael Landsberry, 45, was shot dead while protecting students from the gunman.
A motive is still not known. Investigators said the gun belonged to the boy's parents. 

[h=4]Kevin Clifford/AP[/h] [h=4]The lone suspected gunman was also dead and was believed to have committed suicide.[/h]
The school sits in a working-class district of Sparks, a city of about 90,000 just east of Reno.
The violence came less than a year after a shooting in Newtown, Conn., left 26 dead, igniting a debate over how to protect the nation's schools from gun violence.
"It's not supposed to happen here," Chanda Landsberry, Michael Landsberry's sister-in-law, told The Associated Press.
"We're just Sparks — little Sparks, Nevada. It's unreal."
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