Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Student Killed in School Shooting
An argument among students at a Brooklyn high school escalated into gunfire, leaving a 16-year-old student dead and a teacher seriously wounded, authorities said. The dead student, Darryl Sharpe, “was an innocent bystander” to a dispute that broke out in a hallway of Thomas Jefferson High School, said Detective Joseph Gallagher. A second shot struck teacher Robert Anderson, 48, in the neck, police said. Sharpe died at Brookdale Hospital, where Anderson was in serious but stable condition, a hospital official said. The students involved in the shooting fled amid the confusion, a school official said.
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