The horror of school shootings can happen anywhere. No city or school is immune to the tragic shock.
Now Roswell, a city in eastern New Mexico that feels to many Lubbock and area residents like a neighbor, has experienced the unthinkable. The 12-year-old shooter’s young age made the terrible circumstances seem worse.
How could a child that young plan and carry out such an awful crime? He shot an 11-year-old boy in the face and neck and a 13-year-old girl in the shoulder.