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Gunman Robs English Class

By Alison Go

January 16, 2009 RSS Feed Print

A gunman wearing a wig robbed an English class at LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis Thursday morning, the Associated Press reports. The school's president says 18 students were in the class when a man with a handgun told them to toss their purses and wallets on the floor.

Classes were canceled for the rest of the day, and the school was on lockdown briefly after the incident. Police made no immediate arrests.

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i like English class a lot. And i enjoy very much and i like a Ms.Plata too. and i have a lot of friends in English class when teacher say to do something i done it very fastly and i have a lot of fun. Bye Ms.Platz.

ashley of AK 7:52PM January 29, 2009

I cant believe someone would actually do that to a class or matter of fact a school. This man should be put behind bars. This person probably didnt go to shool or he didnt like it.Probably he was one of the students who went there and had to revisit it to see how it was doing but found themselves robbing the school instead. I actually cant believe someone would do that.

Kenny of CA 3:22PM January 26, 2009

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