OXNARD, Calif. — Oxnard police say one person has been shot and wounded at or near a junior high school and another person is in custody.
Officer Tom Payn said the shooting occurred around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at or in the vicinity of E.O. Green Junior High School.
A police community services officer said both people involved in the incident are believed to be students.
Payn said the school was locked down and parents were being contacted about the incident.
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Fellow eighth-grader could face murder charge after computer lab incident
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The Associated Press earlier Wednesday reported erroneously that a 15-year-old boy shot at a California school had died. A medical examiner said the boy had been declared brain-dead by doctors but remained on a ventilator.
OXNARD, Calif. - A 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head at a junior high school in California reportedly was declared brain-dead by doctors but remains on a ventilator, a medical examiner said Wednesday.
Police say Lawrence King was shot Tuesday by another eighth-grader near the end of first period in a computer lab.
The 14-year-old suspected shooter was arrested shortly after the shooting.
Prosecutor Greg Totten said that if the victim dies, the boy could face charges of murder and use of a firearm in commission of murder.
Classmates say victim sometimes wore makeup, feminine attire
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OXNARD, Calif. - Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 14-year-old boy with attempted murder and said he committed a hate crime in the classroom shooting of an eighth-grader who was declared brain dead.
Prosecutors would not say why they filed a hate-crime enhancement with the attempted murder count, but several classmates said the 15-year-old victim, Lawrence King, sometimes wore makeup, high heels and other feminine attire.
Prosecutors want the suspect tried as an adult and expect to upgrade the charges after King is taken off a ventilator for organ donation.
"It is inevitable that this is going to become a murder case," Ventura County prosecutor Maeve Fox said.
King was shot in the head Tuesday morning during a class at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, police said. More than 20 other students were in the room at the time.
Fox said she could not discuss the facts behind the allegation of a hate crime because those details of the case have not been publicly disclosed. Oxnard police have not specified a motive but said there appeared to be a personal dispute between the two.
King sometimes came to school wearing makeup and high heels, eighth-grader Nicholas Cortez, 14, told The Associated Press.
Another eighth-grader, Michael Sweeney, said King's appearance was "freaking the guys out," the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
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