NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on a juvenile court hearing for a 13-year-old boy accused of shooting a classmate and a teacher at a suburban Indianapolis school (all times local):
FILE – In this July 4, 2018 file photo, Jason Seaman serves as a grand marshal in the Fourth of July Parade in Noblesville, Ind. The seventh-grade science teacher survived a school shooting by a 13 year-old boy at Noblesville West Middle School in May. The boy admitted in court Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, to shooting and wounding a classmate and a teacher at the suburban Indianapolis school, saying in a statement read by his attorneys during a juvenile court hearing that, “If I could, I would take it back.” (Jenna Watson/The Indianapolis Star via AP File)
4 p.m.
A suburban Indianapolis teacher who was shot by a 13-year-old boy inside his classroom described in a court hearing how he tackled and disarmed the student.
Science teacher Jason Seaman is credited with halting the May 25 shooting that also wounded a 13-year-old girl at Noblesville West Middle School.
The Indianapolis Star reports Seaman testified during Monday’s juvenile court hearing for the boy that he was helping another student when the boy entered and began firing.
Seaman said he threw a small basketball at the student and then tackled him, even as the boy continued firing. He says he pinned him to the floor and eventually forced him to the drop the weapon.
Seaman says he told his other students to run from the classroom and call 911, then disarmed the boy, who had a second gun.
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3:20 p.m.
Investigators say a 13-year-old boy who has admitted to shooting and wounding a classmate and a teacher at a suburban Indianapolis school had an online history filled with searches for school shootings and mass shootings.
The Indianapolis Star reports that investigators said during Monday’s juvenile court hearing that the boy’s online history included searches for “Columbine,” ”Sandy Hook” and other U.S. school shootings.
They testified that the day before the May 25 shooting the youth also searched for: “What was the largest mass shooting in America” and looked for a “blueprint” of Noblesville West Middle School.
The director of the juvenile detention center where the boy has been held testified that he was given Legos in August, but they were taken away in October after he put the plastic blocks together in the shape of a rifle.
Earlier in the day, the boy’s attorneys read a statement in which he apologized to the victims.
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1:35 p.m.
A 13-year-old boy has admitted that he shot and wounded a classmate and a teacher at a suburban Indianapolis school.
The youth admitted to the May 25 attack at Noblesville West Middle School during a Monday juvenile court hearing.
The boy’s attorneys read a statement in which the youth apologized to teacher Jason Seaman and 13-year-old classmate Ella Whistler.
The boy entered a Hamilton County courtroom dressed in an orange-and-white striped jumpsuit. He appeared stoic as he sat next to his mother and father.
A juvenile court judge will decide on the disposition in the case at a later date. His options include ordering the boy to spend time in a mental health treatment center or to be held at a state juvenile detention center.
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12:10 p.m.
Prosecutors say a 13-year-old boy accused of shooting a classmate and a teacher at a suburban Indianapolis school was carrying two handguns and more than 100 rounds of ammunition on the day of attack.
Prosecutors said during a juvenile court hearing Monday that the boy took the weapons and ammunition from a safe in his family’s home. The boy is expected to admit at the hearing that he was the shooter in the May 25 attack at Noblesville West Middle School.
The Indianapolis Star reports that prosecutors say a backpack believed to be the boy’s was found in a school restroom and contained a box of a hundred rounds for one of the two handguns they say he carried into the school.
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11:20 a.m.
Prosecutors say a 13-year-old boy made a video warning of violence the day before he allegedly shot and wounded a classmate and a teacher at their suburban Indianapolis school.
Prosecutors said during a juvenile court hearing Monday that the boy filmed the video in his family’s basement showing a .45-caliber handgun and a .22-caliber handgun with a silencer.
The Associated Press isn’t using the boy’s name because he is charged as a juvenile.
The Indianapolis Star reports that prosecutors said the boy pronounced in the video: “Tomorrow’s Friday, you know what that means. I have to take other people’s lives before I take my own.”
The teen is accused of shooting teacher Jason Seaman and 13-year-old classmate Ella Whistler on May 25 at Noblesville West Middle School, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Indianapolis.
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12:11 a.m.
A 13-year-old boy accused of shooting a classmate and a teacher at their suburban Indianapolis school is due in court for a hearing where he’s expected to admit to carrying out the attack.
The teen is scheduled to appear in juvenile court Monday for an admission/uncontested fact-finding hearing and a disposition hearing.
A Hamilton County judge issued an order Sept. 5 setting those juvenile versions of what in adult court would be plea and sentencing hearings.
The boy is accused of shooting teacher Jason Seaman and 13-year-old classmate Ella Whistler on May 25 at Noblesville West Middle School, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Indianapolis. Both survived.
Authorities say Seaman stopped the attack by tackling the boy.
The Associated Press isn’t using the boy’s name because he’s charged as a juvenile.
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