Board Expels Girl Who Brought a Gun to School
The Los Angeles Board of Education voted Monday to expel for at least the remainder of the year a 9-year-old Panorama City girl who brought a gun to her school last month and fired it, the bullet grazing a schoolmate.
The board voted 6 to 0, with member Jeff Horton abstaining, to remove the child from the fourth grade at Plummer Elementary School in Chatsworth.
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