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School Shootings / Threats / Williamsport, Pennsylvania #397473

CBS Evening News for Wednesday, Mar 07, 2001
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.

(Studio: Jim Axelrod) More threats of school violence featured; details given of the wounding of a girl in a shooting at the Bishop Neumann Catholic school by a female student; the attempt of a Covington, WA, boy to take his classmates hostage and several other school violence threats; maps shown on incident sites. [Williamsport STUDENT - says he was scared.] [Williamsport, Pennsylvania, police department spokesman David RITTER - says one student was angry with another.] [Washington state STUDENT - says he did not know if he would die.] [National Crime Prevention Council James COPPLE - describes a "contagion effect".] [New York University Robin GOODMAN - says children now believe violence can happen anywhere.]

Reporter(s):
Axelrod, Jim;
Rather, Dan
Duration:
00:02:40

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