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Mt. Horeb (WI) Middle School, Wisconsin active shooter incident, read eyewitness accounts

The 14-year-old student in today’s incident at Mt. Horeb (WI) Middle School is dead after approaching the school with what appears to have been a rifle. He was confronted by police responding to a report of an active shooter. 


The school was not breached, and no one sustained physical injuries. The community is reeling and coming to terms with what might have been.


In the coming days we will learn more about the missed red flags and opportunities to prevent the attack. What we do know is missing the chance to help a teenage student before another school shooting is a failure.


We can do better. We must do better.

An Eyewitness accounts:

Today has been an unusual and rough day in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. I had just returned home from a Pleasent morning uptown when I got a general alert that there was an active shooter on Garfield St. Lock the doors, stay inside. I locked the doors and loaded a gun. I went on social media and the local emergency app. We had a shooter at the middle school, apparently a 14 year old. Information came in bits and pieces. I have many friends with children in the schools here. I had just parted ways with a friend and her daughter who was headed to school. 

The tactical response here is immediate and all hands on deck. Every community sent response. 

Parents and concerned villagers were on social media trying to find out what was going on and hoping and praying for the best. Offers of help and concern poured in. 

Protocols were followed and the building was not breached but as shots were being fired some of the middle schoolers bolted for the high school. As a community, we are very very lucky today. But, it appears that one child is dead, the active shooter. I feel for that child’s pain and am so glad his or her goal was unsuccessful. I feel for the person who was forced to stop that child. This is a sad, sad day. Lives have been impacted in a way that will forever be changed. 

Guns need to be secured. Really, really secured. Sometimes, you have people in a household that shouldn’t be in a home with a gun. So, remove the gun until it’s safe to have one or keep it in a gun safe and secure the key to the safe. We really really need sensible gun laws. If you don’t believe that, you are a part of the problem. We have to do a better job. What happened today is too high a price to pay.

Kym Anderson said "I can’t breathe right now.  Active shooter at MHMS.  Aly & her friends were at lunch & there were gunshots fired.  Everyone in the lunchroom took off running. Thankfully, Aly her friends she sits with made it to a local business where they were able to get in touch with parents.  Jana & Jeff Helgesen Nora is safe with my parents until I can get there.  I left work and am on my way.  I have never heard that amount of fear in my kids voice and I hope I never have to again.

Please pray for everyone involved! There are reports that med flight is being requested at the school. 🙏 

This conversation and the little crack in her voice when she said “Mom” will haunt me til the day I die! 😢 

A: Mom?

Me: What’s wrong?

A: There’s a school shooter! (Sobbing)

Me: Are you ok?

A: (thru more tears) Yes, but I don’t know if anyone else got shot!  We were in the lunchroom and there were a bunch of shots and we all had to run!"

The active shooter is reportedly a 14-year-old student of Mt. Horeb (WI) Middle School, some of his classmates said they saw him before they ran.

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