She got shot. . . . I sat and watched her. The other wounded teacher, Sara Thetford, was in critical condition tonight. Five students, all girls, were in stable condition at St. Bernards, while four students, a boy and three girls, were treated and released. The incident stunned longtime residents of this town, about 130 miles northeast of Little Rock.
Local schools grant a few days' holiday at the opening of deer season.
But the town is generally peaceful, he said. If we had four or five murders in a year, people would be up in arms. There's no violent crime to speak of. A growing town, Jonesboro boasts Arkansas State University as well as a medical center. A hill rises about 30 feet above the rear of the school, where a fenced playground was silent tonight.