p2pnet news view | Crime:- With the news of the terrible Finland school murders in the background, in another incident involving  weapons, a chaplain at a private College in Saskatchewan, Canada, was yesterday held at gunpoint by a 16-year-old ex-student.

“As many as 300 students were held hostage during morning chapel service yesterday at a local private high school, after a former student barged into Luther College’s gymnasium and forced the principal at gunpoint to read a letter he had written,” says the Canwest News Service.

According to student Tasha Niedzielski, “He had a gun in his hand and everyone started screaming,” said the story. “He basically told everyone to shut up and listen and he told Pastor (Larry) Fry to read.

“He read the speech and people exited carefully but then he’d point the gun at them and tell them to stop. He did it several times. They got all the Grade 9s out and then after probably half an hour or 45 minutes Mr. Anderson [school principal Mark Anderson] grabbed him and grabbed the gun and then a bunch of cops came in after him.”

The weapon turned out to be a pellet pistol but before teenager was captured, ‘”The school was in lockdown as Regina police cruisers swarmed the neighbourhood, surrounded the school and closed off neighbouring blocks,” says Canwest.

“Several police officers could be seen hunched behind parked cars with pistols drawn. After the suspect’s arrest, hundreds of students were seen crying and hugging outside the school.”

[The pic on the right is a blow-up clip from Roy Antal’s Canwest News Service photo.]

Finland school murders - Finns demand gun laws after school massacre, September 24, 2008
Canwest News Service - Regina hostage-taking ends without bloodshed, September 24, 2008

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