Blaming poor parenting isn't necessarily an answer, either. We've got too many suffering kids. I don't know what went wrong. Images portrayed the devastating story to the nation. Bleeding profusely, Sanders dragged himself into a classroom after heroically herding hundreds of students from the school cafeteria Tuesday, saving their lives before taking two wounds to the chest.
Students shed clothing, trying to save Sanders by stemming the bleeding.
Sanders, whose girls basketball team made the 5A playoffs for the first time since 1992 this spring, was not to be saved. Then there was the boy leaning out the second-story library window, falling into the arms of rescuers, bleeding. Patrick Ireland is alive today. Shot twice in the head, he's in the intensive care unit at St. Anthony Hospital Central, his right side paralyzed. The images reached those in Paducah, in Jonesboro, in Springfield.