If you can't tell a pellet gun from a firearm you shouldn't be in law
enforcement.

The armed student who was shot dead this week before he could charge into
a Wisconsin middle school pointed his pellet gun at police, prosecutors
said Saturday.

According to the state Department of Justice, the unnamed student was
carrying a Ruger .177 caliber pellet rifle outside Mount Horeb Middle
School Wednesday.

�Officers directed the subject to drop the weapon, but the subject did not
comply,� the department said in a release.

�The subject pointed the weapon at the officers, after which law
enforcement discharged their firearms, striking the subject. Lifesaving
measures were deployed but the subject died on scene.�

No one else was injured. The Mount Horeb police officers who were involved
were put on administrative leave as per agency policy.

The prosecutor�s Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating the
shooting.

Police rushed to the middle school around 11:15 a.m. after a 911 caller
spotted a suspicious figure walking toward the building with a long gun,
prosecutors said.

Authorities have not named the gunman, only identifying him as a juvenile
male.

The would-be shooter never made it inside the school, but the terrifying
incident sent the young students fleeing for their lives � including some
who escaped on in-line skates.

Terrified parents said that their children hid in closets, scared to take
out their phones to call or text.

One middle schooler, 12-year-old Max Kelly, said his class was in the
school gym practicing in-line skating when they heard gunshots.

When his teacher told the class to get out of the school they skated to a
street, ditched the skates and ran to a convenience store and gas station
where they hid in a bathroom.

Mount Horeb, which is about 25 miles west of the state capital Madison, is
home to around 7,600 people and the central office of outerwear retailer
Duluth Trading Company.

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pellet-gun-at-police-before-he-was-shot-dead/