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By STEVE PONA ain CapMIE LYON A 16-year-old student at Sturgeon Creek Regional School was fatally shot in a commercial art class about 8:35 a.m today. The student has been identified as Ken Maitland. About 75 students and three teach ers were in the large, ground-floor classroom in the south wing of the school at 2665 Ness Avenue at the time of the incident. Winnipeg police have a male juve nile in custody. A police spokesman said he was to be charged when he appears in juvenile court Friday morning. A police spokesman said the inci dent occurred when a male youth walked into the commercial drafting class and shot and killed a classmate from point blank range. Police said a juvenile was appre hended several blocks from the school. Student Aldine Melnyk, 17, of 327 Racquette Street, said “One guy in the class brought in a shotgun; he brought it in in a green bag. “He pulled out the gun and shot the guy in the head. Then he just walked out. He walked out with the gun on his shoulder and said ‘I did it on pur pose’. ‘It was really surprised. I just started shaking and we just ran out. It was awful.” She said the two students involved in the incident were sitting side by side at the rear of the classroom. There were no words exchanged be tween them before the shooting, she added. Other eyewitness said they heard “a loud bang... sort of like a paint can exploding or a large tray being dropped.” Tracy Buller, 16, of 11 Gibraltar Bay, said she heard the shot but didn’t see the actual shooting. “I turned around and looked and I saw one guy holding a gun and one guy lying on the floor. We got out of the shop right away. We didn’t stay around to look. Morning classes at the school were cancelled. A noon-hour pep rally was cancelled and a volleyball game tonight postponed. Student John Dickson, 17, of 31 Harvest Lane, said there was no panic in the room. Student Wayne Ball, 18, of 140 Wordsworth Way, said ‘| turned around and he was holding a 12 gauge sawed-off pump. There was no ex pression on his face. It was just blank.”’ Medical examiner Dr. John §. Gar wood was called to the scene from the nearby Westwood Medical Clinic. School officials said they were in undated with telephone calls from concerned parents of students in the school following reports of the shoot ing and have been telling them that The body of Ken Maitland is put into an ambulance following shooting at a St. James school this morning. —Photo by Wayne Glowacks
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Oct 19, 1978
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