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School shooting teen killed dad
31/08/2006 09:10 - (SA)
North Carolina - A teenager questioned in a shooting at a high school that injured two students on Wednesday confessed to killing his father and was charged with murder, authorities said.
Alvaro Rafael Castillo, 19, was firing two weapons outside the school when he was approached by sheriff's deputies who ordered him to drop his weapons. Castillo complied with the order.
After being taken into custody, he told deputies about killing his father.
Deputies who forced their way into the family's home found Rafael Huezo Castillo's body, who had been shot to death, Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass said.
'Put him out of his misery'
It was not immediately known when the father died.
"Somebody had to put him out of his misery," the teen said as he was led from a sheriff's office to jail.
A school district spokesperson said a former student drove into the school's parking lot at midday and fired a gun at the building. A girl was grazed on the shoulder, and a boy was struck by shattered glass, spokesperson Anne D'Annunzio said.
The injured girl was treated at a hospital and released, D'Annunzio said. A window at the school was shot out, but D'Annunzio did not know whether the shattered glass caused the boy's minor injuries.
Columbine
Castillo has not been charged in the school shooting.
Asked why he went to Orange High School, Castillo responded: "Columbine. Remember Columbine."
In 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado before committing suicide in the nation's worst school shooting.
- AP
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