California school shooter targeted bullies, sheriff says

The Taft shooting came less than a month after a gunman massacred 20 children and six women at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., then killed himself. That shooting prompted President Barack Obama to promise new efforts to curb gun

Others following the gun policy debate have been more critical of the idea of posting armed officials on the campus of every school, a proposal pushed by the National Rifle Association following the shooting deaths of 20

Jacob Jackson, a sophomore at Taft Union High School, was in the campus library when the intercom crackled Thursday morning, announcing a lockdown. "We're supposed to have a lockdown drill next week. I thought it was a drill going early," Jacob, 15,

"They knew not to let him leave the classroom with that shotgun." The teacher's father, David Heber, told the Bakersfield Californian that he had heard rumors of a school shooting but wasn't initially worried that his son's classroom would have been

One student has been seriously wounded and a teacher has suffered a minor injury in a shooting at a high school in Taft, California. The incident comes less than a month after a massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.