When I was in High School, a kid I knew brought a gun to school and blew his head off in front of everyone. News choppers were there within' an hour. It was a circus for about a week.
Damn, did you witness that/what was his deal?
I lucked out, I was late to school that day. At Coldwater High School, there's a big student parkinglot(about 1500 students, and almost everyone over 16 drives), with a long sidewalk up to the back lobby. He drove his car up to the back door right about peak time for people coming to school, smoked a joint, threw a note out the door then locked it, pointed his rifle at a few people, and then blew his brains out. Most people thought it was a joke(our whole crew was notorious for pulling pranks) until he pulled the trigger. A friend of his tried to stop him, and broke his hand trying to punch out the window. The kid who killed himself was really popular at school, A genious on guitar(he had just been accepted to Berkley music school they day before), and really didn't seem depressed or distant at all. Nobody knows why he did it, other than the fact that his brother had also shot himself a few years earlier on the same date.
When I got to school, I saw his car out back, and thought he was playing some sort of trick, then I saw a janitor running up from the bus garage with a big tarp, and a teacher ran out screaming at us to all walk in the side door. I had no clue what was going on, and I could hear the approaching sirens in the distance. First thing I heard when I walked in was a kid saying "Harley killed himself, so maybe they'll cancel school, that'd be cool", and a girl saying, in front of some of his friends mind you, "Well, we know that he's going to hell". They didn't cancel school, but they didn't make anyone do any school work for about a week either. And they made a lot of kids see therapsts. They were really scared that it would touch off a mass chain of suicides. It was weird. I still have a couple of friends that were close to Harley and saw it happen, and they're both pretty fucked in the head now.