Officials: Boy, 14, critical after being shot in head at Ala. middle school; student arrested

Boy, 14, shot in head at Ala. middle school

MADISON, Ala. — A school official says a 14-year-old boy was shot in the head by another student inside an Alabama middle school and is in critical condition.

The victim, ninth grader Todd Brown, was being treated at a local hospital. Madison City Schools Superintendent Dee Fowler said no one else at Discovery Middle School was hurt. He says it’s unclear what prompted the gunfire Friday afternoon.

Fowler says the accused shooter was arrested in the school, where police regularly are stationed

Madison, which is in northern Alabama, has about 38,500 residents. Many of them work in technology jobs related to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at Redstone Arsenal.

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MADISON, Ala. (AP) — A school official says a 14-year-old boy was shot in the head by another student inside an Alabama middle school and is in critical condition.

The victim, ninth grader Todd Brown, was being treated at a local hospital. Madison City Schools Superintendent Dee Fowler said no one else at Discovery Middle School was hurt. She says it’s unclear what prompted the gunfire Friday afternoon.

Fowler says the accused shooter was arrested in the school, where police regularly are stationed

Madison, which is in northern Alabama, has about 38,500 residents. Many of them work in technology jobs related to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at Redstone Arsenal.

(This version CORRECTS APNewsNow. corrects to say ‘he’ sted ’she’ on 2nd reference to school superintendent.)