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Listen: 911 calls from students capture panic amid Nev. school shooting

Students and teachers made dozens of calls to police after a 12-year-old boy opened fire on a teacher and two peers

NY Daily News

SPARKS, Nev. — 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. “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. “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.

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