Near the four corners/Navajo Nation region.
Three dead: the shooter and two students.
This scared the bejesus out of me. My cousin’s son is a senior in HS in Farmington, and when I clicked on the first news feed I saw it was the Farmington Newspaper reporting. Turns out that is the closest good sized town. I just hate guns. 
Only 3 dead including the shooter. Not worth the paper the headline was written on. Just another day in ‘Murica.
I have not heard/seen a speck of news about this today until just now on Twitter by a doctor I follow - that is terribly sad - sad that it is not “breaking news”.
It’s the top local news story in NM.
One fact not widely reported in the national news–the responding police officers initially couldn’t get into the school because all the exterior doors were locked as part of the school lockdown protocol. Police had shoot the doors open and break windows to get inside the building. By the time the police got inside, the shooter had already committed suicide.
I did hear that they got to the school very fast.
quoteThe 21-year-old man who shot and killed two students at Aztec High School in New Mexico on Thursday had previously been investigated by the FBI for online comments about planning a mass shooting.
San Juan County Sheriff Ken Christesen on Friday identified the gunman as William Atchison. Christesen said at a news conference that the shooting was a “planned event” and that Atchison purchased a 9mm Glock last month, which he used in the shooting.
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/us/aztec-high-school-shooting-william-atchison/index.html
That’s because Aztec is a really small town, Population <6000. The entire town is maybe 5 blocks long & 1 block wide. The San Juan Sheriff’s Dept is only 1.5 miles away, even though it’s on the completely opposite side of town from the high school.
This is second mass shooting in New Mexico small town in the last 3.5 months. The other mass shooting happened August 28 in Clovis, NM, when a 16 year old high school student walked into the town’s public library with 2 handguns and opened fire. He killed a librarian and a custodian, and wounded 4 patrons, including critically injuring a 10 year old boy.
This is really tragic. I used to live in Aztec back in the 60s. My older brother went to Aztec High (I was still in jr. high at the time). It was the friendliest town I ever lived in. And CV Koogler Jr. High that I attended was the only school I ever knew of that honored academic achievemenst almost as much as athletic ones, which made it a great town in which to be a nerd.
Another that barely made headlines today. 2 15 year olds dead.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/us/kentucky-high-school-shooting/index.html
After one that didn’t make headlines yesterday:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/italy-high-school-shooting-in-texas-today-2018-01-22-live-updates/
At this point I don’t see what rational people can do except hope it isn’t one of their friends or loved ones who is killed.
The inmates are running the asylum.
Having a nibling around and probably a few more on the way shortly has made all of these hit much closer to home than they did before. My SIL & BIL are seriously considering homeschooling because of this and other things. (She’s an educator so at least she is trained in education.)
Not that I didn’t care about this before. Those of you who have been on here for a long time know that gun violence has been one of my banner issues. But having him around just makes it that much more real.
@romanigypsyeyes , my son was in kindergarten when the Dunblane kindergarten massacre happened. Shattering.
I remember that on 9/11, I sat in my nightgown in front of the TV/computer all morning, until sometime in the early afternoon I got dressed and drove over to his school, went to his classroom, and looked at him through the glass panel in the door. I just had to see him.
When you have hostages to fortune, things change.
I think we have some sort of national cultural sickness that goes beyond the whole bone wearying, never ending gun debate. Even as we convince ourselves of our own moral superiority over religious zealots who would blow themselves to smithereens in order to take out as many “infidels” as possible, we have among our own citizenry two many who will, with cold efficiency and apparently little in the way of religious or moral conviction, mow down as many innocent people as guns will allow. I have no confidence that we will ever gather the collective will to look inward, much less work together to figure out what must be done to stop this sickness. This fact saddens me more than I can express in words.
@Consolation My D was a kindergartener, and in ski school that day. I HAD to go see her physically – went to the area I thought they’d be and skied there til I saw her from the ski lift. It was a biological imperative. Completely beyond my control.
I live in CT…and I think very educator in this state has at least once thought of their personal safety when they have gone to work…and the kids.
I quit my job a year or so after the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. I eventually went back to work (part time) but I really craved being with my children more before they started school.