A 12-year-old student was shot by his classmate after they crossed paths in the seventh-grade hallway before the shooter was arrested near the school.
Jamari Jackson tragically died after being rushed to Prisma Health Greenville Memorial after he was shot and killed at a middle school in South Carolina.
Michael, a witness who claimed to be friends with the gunman told WSPA: “We were just walking down the hallway. He was walking really fast and he looked really nervous, and there was just a whole crowd of kids.”
“All of sudden, he just reaches into his backpack and just pulls out gun [and] fired one shot,” Michael continued.
“I didn’t think twice, I just ran. I just thought: ‘Oh my god, he’s going to shoot the school.’”
Michael also claimed that he has never seen his friend “walk that fast and kind of nervous like that” before but he did not think a shooting would occur.
“Everyone standing around us were just screaming and running. And all of sudden, I look behind me and kids are just running inside classrooms and locking the doors and everything. And he didn’t know what to do, he just ran.”
The gunman was later found hiding under a desk near the school.
Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis said at a press conference: “He was hiding. He’s a young man, probably didn’t understand the consequences of what had just happened. I don’t think he knew what to do honestly, except for to leave the school.”
The shooter, who is now in custody at the Department of Juvenile Justice, has been charged with murder, possession of a firearm on school property, possession of a weapon, and unlawful possession of a weapon by a person under the age of 18.
“While the motive for the shooting and how the suspect was able to get possession of a firearm is still under investigation, we can confirm that the victim and suspect were familiar with each other and we are confident the incident was isolated,” Lewis added.
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