Feb 7, 2008 10:45 am US/Pacific
Gunman Who Shot Wife At Ohio School Found Dead
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (AP) ―
A teacher's husband charged into her fifth-grade classroom Thursday morning, then stabbed and shot her as students watched, police said. He was later found dead in his home after a standoff with police.
The woman's condition was not known
The shooting happened at about 9 a.m. at Notre Dame Elementary, a private Catholic school on the main road in Portsmouth, a community in southern Ohio near the Kentucky border.
The school and another Catholic school nearby were locked down, said Deacon Tom Berg, vice chancellor of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus.
"We are mobilizing our crisis team and sending them down," Berg said.
Parents, many with cell phones clutched to their ears, congregated across the street from the school and began leaving with their children around 10:30 a.m., said Kathy Hall, the office manager at the Cornerstone United Methodist Church across the street from the school.
"I wasn't afraid for my own safety, I was afraid for the children, because these turn out so terrible, you know," said Hall.
The scene was chaotic with police cars and few ambulances descending on the school, and the fire department blocked off the street.
The Methodist church locked its doors after the shooting, and public schools also were put on lockdown, said Superintendent Jan Broughton, who oversees the community's public schools.
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