13-year-old shot at Memphis elementary school, another student is in custody
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A 13-year-old boy was injured Thursday morning in a shooting at a Memphis, Tennessee elementary school. Police locked down the building and took the suspected shooter, another student, into custody later in the day, according to the Memphis Police Department.
Police from four Memphis stations responded to an active shooter call at Cummings Elementary around 9:15 a.m., where they discovered a 13-year-old who had been shot. The boy was transported to Memphis' Le Bonheur Children's Hospital where he remains in stable but critical condition.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of this student and the student," Jerica Phillips, a spokesperson for Shelby County schools, said in a news conference Thursday. Phillips added that the school had recently completed its active shooter drill on September 2.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.