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HONOLULU — A Hawaii high school is expected to resume normal operations today after a police officer shot a 17-year-old runaway on campus, prompting a lockdown and canceling classes.
The teen was shot in the wrist Tuesday after cutting one officer with a knife and punching two others, authorities said.
State Department of Education spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said the boy showed up at Roosevelt High School near downtown Honolulu, and officials there recognized him as a runaway and called police. The boy previously had been a student at the public school, but he wasn't registered for classes there this semester, she said.
TULSA, Okla. — A 16-year-old Texas girl who plummeted more than 3,000 feet to the ground in an Oklahoma skydiving accident survived and is recovering from her many injuries, a doctor said Tuesday.Dr. Jeffrey Bender, a trauma surgeon at OU Medical Center who treated Makenzie Wethington when she was flown Saturday from a skydiving school in Chickasha, said the girl hurt her liver and broke her pelvis, lumbar spine in her lower back, a shoulder blade and several ribs. She also has a broken tooth.“I don't know the particulars of the accident as I wasn't there. But if she truly fell 3,000 feet, I have no idea how she survived,” Bender said at a news conference at the hospital, where the girl's parents also spoke to reporters.
