Police fatally shoot student outside Wisconsin middle school while responding to report of person with a gun

Police shot and killed a student outside a Wisconsin middle school Wednesday as officers responded to a report of a person with a gun, officials said.

No one else was hurt in the incident outside Mount Horeb Middle School, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said in an evening news conference. He said the investigation was ongoing and declined to disclose details of what led up to the shooting.

“Police officers from the Mount Horeb Police Department responded to a report of an individual with a weapon outside the middle school. Police officers responded to that threat, and they used deadly force,” Kaul said, adding that the person was a student in the Mount Horeb Area School District.

As is protocol, some officers will be placed on leave following the shooting, Kaul said.

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