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Student Killed in Shooting Outside Indiana School in US
A 16-year-old student was shot and killed by a former student on March 30 in the parking lot of a high school in Gary City of Indiana State in the United States.
The victim, a 10th-grader at Lew Wallace High School, was targeted by a 17-year-old suspect who pulled out a gun and shot him in the head as other students standing alongside.
The suspected gunman, who was expelled from the school last year for failing to attend class, was unarmed when apprehended a few blocks away at a relative's home and was later questioned by police.
The shooting was the latest act of violence in and around US schools.
Local police said there have been two or three shootings in and around Lew Wallace High School in recent years, including the fatal shooting of a pregnant student at a football game four years ago.
Gary, a city of more than 100,000 near Chicago, has a reputation of high crime and high poverty rates. It had the top per capita murder rate in the United States in the early 1990s, although the number of murders has fallen by half in recent years.
School shootings have increased in the United States in recent years, although most of the shootings have been in suburban school districts and not at urban schools.
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