![]() ![]() “After a while, the girl started talking to me, and I could tell she was very unhappy,” Gneiting said. Gneiting held the girl, consoling her until police arrived. “And then after I got the gun, I just pulled her into a hug because I thought, this little girl has a mom somewhere that doesn’t realize she’s having a breakdown and she’s hurting people.” She didn’t give it to me, but she didn’t fight,” Gneiting said. “I just slowly pulled the gun out of her hand, and she allowed me to. ![]() She asked the girl: “Are you the shooter?” and then walked closer, putting her hand on the child’s arm and sliding it down to the gun. “I just knew when I saw that gun, I had to get the gun.” “It was a little girl, and my brain couldn’t quite grasp that,” she said. She told the wounded student to stay still and approached the sixth-grader. Gneiting said she was trying to help one of the students who had been shot when she saw the girl holding the gun. All three were wounded and released from the hospital within a few days. Police said a sixth-grade girl brought the handgun in her backpack and shot two people inside the school and one outside. No one was killed in the attack, and all three victims recovered from their gunshot wounds.“So I just told my students, ‘We are going to leave, we’re going to run to the high school, you’re going to run hard, you’re not going to look back and now is the time to get up and go,’” Gneiting said in the interview shown on Good Morning America. Taylor says his office has checked on the shooter, and she is getting the best help possible. “Knowing that she was going to get out of jail while still a young adult, regardless of the court, it became very clear that the juvenile system was where we needed to stay.” “Juvenile correction is all about rehabilitation and helping these people get what they need in order to no longer be a threat to themselves or society,” Taylor said. To do that, he opted to keep the case in juvenile court because the Department of Juvenile Corrections is more focused on rehabilitating the incarcerated than the adult Department of Correction. ![]() He said he considered having the case moved to adult court but regardless, it was clear that the juvenile shooter would only be incarcerated until she was an adult.Īs a result, Taylor decided to focus on how they could best rehabilitate the shooter to minimize the threat after she was released. Jefferson County Prosecutor Mark Taylor tells that this was the best possible outcome given the law. If the Custody Review Board does not deem her rehabilitated by her 19th birthday, she could be held until she is 21.Īfter she is released, she will be on probation for 36 months. The child was then committed to the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections until her 19th birthday or until the Custody Review Board deems her rehabilitated. But there was no trial as the shooter entered a plea agreement and pleaded guilty to all three charges. The court documents reveal that the juvenile shooter was charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder. As such, the documents were released with the names of everyone except law enforcement redacted. However, Clark also addressed the importance of protecting the privacy of the victims and the juvenile. … To state the obvious, the public has a right to access information concerning an exceptional event,” Clark wrote. “The court concludes that this was an exceptional event. Clark ordered the release of some court documents related to the case. Thompson ruled in favor of our request and ordered the release of investigative documents related to the shooting. Until this spring, much of the information about the shooting and events that day were off-limits to the public. ![]() Those documents were part of a public records lawsuit filed earlier this year. That information comes from newly unsealed court documents that reveal the charges and outcome of the case against the juvenile shooter, whom is not identifying because of her age. The 12-year-old girl who shot two students and a custodian at Rigby Middle School on May 6, 2021, could be in the custody of the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections until she turns 19. This article was originally published by Nate Sunderland in East Idaho News. ![]()
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