Shots fired at Episcopal School of Jacksonville

[mtraininjax]

JSO says they it is responding to a shooting at Episcopal School of Jacksonville.

JFRD confirms that there are two victims on the campus.

JSO is not saying if any students have been injured.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/2-dead-in-shooting-at-Episcopal-High-School/-/475880/9234044/-/w57d6h/-/index.html

[fsquid]

A teacher shot the principal and then herself.  This is uncomfirmed coming from a student who is texting his mother at my work.

[mtraininjax]

First Coast news has the information streaming with live video, if interested. Now they are saying a custodian had been shot. Who knows.

They do still say no students were harmed, only adults.

[Tacachale]

My brother is there now. He says the word is it's definitely a murder suicide and that no students were involved; it sounds like the victim was an employee.

[Ocklawaha]

News 4 is saying that it was an employee fired yesterday. The perp brought an AK-47 to the school according to the news. For your non military types the AK-47 is a Russian designed military assault rifle with a staggering rate of fire, and the ability to fire even if it's bumped, bounced and plunged into a tank of mud. This rife EASILY out guns ANYTHING the JSO would likely bring on the property in the back of a squad car.

Looks like a case of revenge, against the administrator or co-worker that led to the firing. The scary part is the weapon of choice says this could have been MUCH, MUCH, worse.

[thekillingwax]

Don't want to get into gun chat but that's not really correct. Most likely not an ak-47, there are a gazillion rifles that look like them now but are functionally different. They're all semi-auto and even at full auto, it's rate of fire isn't very high. If I'm not mistaken, lots of JSO guys are carrying AR rifles now.

Sad that it happened but at least it wasn't another kid randomly targeting others.

[acme54321]

News 4 is saying that it was an employee fired yesterday. The perp brought an AK-47 to the school according to the news. For your non military types the AK-47 is a Russian designed military assault rifle with a staggering rate of fire, and the ability to fire even if it's bumped, bounced and plunged into a tank of mud. This rife EASILY out guns ANYTHING the JSO would likely bring on the property in the back of a squad car.

Looks like a case of revenge, against the administrator or co-worker that led to the firing. The scary part is the weapon of choice says this could have been MUCH, MUCH, worse.

I highly doubt it was a true AK-47, much much more likely it was a semi automatic clone.  And yes Police officers do carry AR-15s or other comparable rifles in the trunk.  With any firearm it could have been much much worse.  Horrible situation for all involved.

[mtraininjax]

My wife's friend heard from her kids, it was a head mistress who fired the Spanish teacher yesterday.

[acme54321]

Lol posted the same thing at the same time

[Ocklawaha]

Perhaps having been on the receiving end of the AK-47's 600 rounds per minute has tainted my viewpoint? In any case, I agree that it is likely something else. Kind of funny that to the news media all assault rifles are AK-47's (which speaks volumes to it's reputation) and all gun owners live in "compounds."

With any such rifle on the campus, we're just very blessed that this wasn't a larger massacre.

[acme54321]

[mtraininjax]

Ock - Surely an AK-47 RIFLE is not something that looks like it belongs on a school campus, it must have happened bang-bang, literally, so quickly because surely people would have seen this as an issue. IT WAS AN ASSAULT RIFLE, HE CARRIED IT BACK ON THE CAMPUS CONCEALED IN A GUITAR CASE, then TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.

News people are stating that there is really no security entrance to the school. At Bolles, there is a security gate, so if someone had been fired, surely they would alert the staff at the gate to know to NOT let someone on campus if they were fired or not to come back to the property. I have a bad feeling that security will rise at all local schools as a result.

Now Episcopal has stated they will take spring break now, so classes will not resume until March 19.

[Captain Zissou]

I have heard from 4 sources that it was Dale Reagan, the headmaster.  They are saying that the shooter was a spanish teacher who was fired yesterday.  The headmaster's office is separate from the rest of the campus.  Most of the administrators offices are along a road at the back of the school.  They are about 400 yards from the classrooms. 

I went to Episcopal from 1998-2005

[Tacachale]

My brother also says that the victim was Dale Reagan.

[mtraininjax]

First Coast News is reporting the same, that Dale D. Regan was killed.

http://www.esj.org/about_us/head_of_school_message/index.aspx

Very sad indeed. Was an avid mountain biker, was a rider in the MS 150, really a good person, well connected. Very sad day in Jax.