Minor held for killing school teacher in Barcelona
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A Spanish student reportedly armed with a crossbow and a knife killed a substitute teacher and wounded four others at a school in Barcelona, police and witnesses said yesterday.
The unidentified boy was detained by police as a suspect after the attack that also saw two other teachers and two students injured. Authorities said he will not face criminal charges because he is under age 14. Spanish media reported his age as 13, which police confirmed.
The attack, which took place just after 9.30am, sowed terror at the Joan Fuster high school in a working class neighborhood of Spain’s second largest city. School attacks are very rare in Spain.
“We were just starting the class and suddenly we heard screams,” said student Gemma Jarque. “So we shut ourselves inside our classroom to be safe.”
Spanish National Television and other media reported the boy had a knife and a crossbow when he entered the school.
The boy was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric examination, said Jose Miguel Company, a spokesman for the Barcelona prosecutor’s office. “He was very disturbed and saying strange and incoherent things,” said Company.
The two wounded students and one of the injured teachers were taken to hospital for treatment while the other injured teacher was treated at the scene.
Parents and students gathered in silence outside the school for students ages 12-16, hugging each other.
Police in Barcelona did not identify the suspect because of his age.
In Spain, children under age 14 are not held legally responsible for crimes and cannot be jailed or placed in juvenile detention centers.
A national police spokesman could not recall any fatal school attacks in the country’s recent history.
Spain did avert an attempt in 2012 by a 21-year-old Spanish man who allegedly wanted to imitate the attack in Columbine, Colorado, that killed 12 students and one teacher.
A spokesman for regional police said it was too early to determine whether yesterday’s attack was an attempt to copycat the Columbine attack, which took place 16 years ago to the day.
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