Girl Shot on Campus at East S.D. School

A stray bullet from an apparent drive-by shooting struck an 11-year-old Mann Middle School girl in the thigh Thursday afternoon shortly after classes were dismissed for the day at the East San Diego campus, police said.

Several people said to be Laotian in a car fired one or more shots at a Cambodian man waiting to pick up a relative at the school, according to police and school district sources. The shooting took place several hundred feet from the school, but one bullet apparently grazed the girl, who was standing with friends on the school grounds.

The girl, whose name was not released, was taken by school police to Kaiser Hospital, where a nursing supervisor said she was treated in the emergency room and released. Police are investigating.