A 12-year-old pupil was shot and killed Thursday by one other 12-year-old pupil inside their South Carolina center college, authorities mentioned.
The shooter was discovered hiding underneath a deck at a house not removed from Tanglewood Center College in Greenville about an hour after the taking pictures and was nonetheless armed, Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis mentioned.
The boy is charged with homicide, possession of a firearm at a faculty and possession of a weapon by somebody underneath 18. He was taken to a juvenile jail in Columbia, Lewis mentioned.
“He was hiding. He’s a younger man, in all probability didn’t perceive the implications of what had simply occurred,” the sheriff mentioned at a information convention. “I don’t suppose he knew what to do, actually, aside from to depart the college.”
The boys knew one another, however the sheriff mentioned investigators are nonetheless attempting to determine what led to the taking pictures in a entrance a part of the college and the way the boy received the gun.
Nobody else was injured within the taking pictures.
The household of the boy killed launched a press release saying he was Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson and asking folks to respect their privateness as they grieve.

“We’re all devastated by right now’s tragedy. We love Jamari dearly,” the household mentioned in a press release launched by neighborhood justice group Combating Injustice Collectively.
A police officer on the college referred to as within the taking pictures and requested emergency backup round 12:30 p.m. and greater than 200 deputies and different regulation enforcement officers rushed to the college, Lewis mentioned.
Helicopter footage from WYFF-TV confirmed dozens of officers strolling round exterior the college with greater than two dozen buses lined up. Some college students have been slowly boarding the buses.
Everybody on campus, together with academics, have been taken to a close-by church.
Greenville County Faculties Superintendent Burke Royster mentioned he doesn’t have any concept how the gun ended up in school and a pupil killed.
“I’m undecided after a full and thorough regulation enforcement investigation anybody will actually know what was going by the thoughts of that younger one that took this rash act,” Royster mentioned.