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Wisconsin authorities said Tuesday that a second-grade teacher called 911 to report a school shooting that left two people dead and six others injured and not a second grade student as they had ...

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Police were alerted to a mass shooting at a private school in Wisconsin on Monday because a second grade teacher called 911 while it was in progress, not a second grade student, which authorities ...

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on Monday, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said on Tuesday, Dec. 16. It was actually a second grade teacher who called authorities, he clarified. "Yesterday after looking at the computer-aided ...

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Police in the US state of Wisconsin said the emergency call they received over Monday's school shooting came from a second-grade teacher, not a student as they had previously stated. A teenage ...