An unidentified student is comforted by police outside the Lake Worth Middle School after a teacher was shot. Seventh-grader Nathaniel Brazil had been sent home for disrupting class by throwing water balloons, Police Chief William Smith said. The student surrendered and was being questioned. Five seconds later, he was shot. There were no other injuries, Cardec said.
Lake Worth is just south of West Palm Beach.
The school has about 1,500 students. It is a community school because adult education classes are held there in the evenings. Lake Worth is in Palm Beach County, the fourth-largest school district in Florida and 14th largest in the nation, with more than 149,500 students. APB Multimedia Inc. All rights reserved.