New Hampshire elementary school locked down after student shoots self
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A New Hampshire elementary school was placed under lockdown after a 14-year-old student shot himself in the face in the cafeteria with about 70 students present.
Cheshire County Attorney Peter Heed said Friday the gunshot wound was self-inflicted. The shooting happened about 11 a.m. at Walpole Elementary School. The student was hospitalized. His name and condition were not released. No one else was hurt.
Nick Phillips, an eighth-grader who shares homeroom with the student, says the boy had been passing notes during the week saying he was depressed. He said it wasn't clear why.
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Students in fifth through eighth grades attend the school. Parents were outside and were being allowed in to retrieve their children, some of whom were being interviewed by police.