ITALY, Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – A tearful prayer vigin at a small North Texas church to pray for a girl wounded in a shooting at the town’s high school.
The vigil Monday night at Central Baptist Church in Italy was held to bring comfort to residents in the town of about 2,000 in the wake of the shooting at Italy High School.
Authorities have a 16-year-old boy in custody as a suspect in the shooting of the 15-year-old girl, which occurred Monday morning in the school cafeteria.
A former Italy High School student identifed as Alyssa Crawford told WFAA that the boy had been bullied in the past and had previously been in trouble at the school. She said, based on what he’s done in the past he shouldn’t have been permitted back into the school.
School officials are barred from revealing disciplary information about any student.
The teen victim is recovering at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
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