Gun-Wielding Man Assaults School Official, Police Say
A gunman assaulted the assistant principal of a South-Central Los Angeles middle school in a campus hallway Tuesday, threatened to kill her, then fled without firing the weapon, authorities said.
The incident occurred just after 10 a.m. at Bethune Middle School, when Lucresia Sturns saw the man and asked him what he was doing, said a school district spokesman.
“He grabbed her in a twist lock, put a gun to her neck and told her, ‘I can kill you if I wanted to,’ and then he let her go,” said Los Angeles police spokesman Mike Partain.
Sturns suffered a severe sprain to her left shoulder, which was placed in a sling. She is expected back on the job tomorrow, school officials said.
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