Students Mourn After Florida Girl Gunned Down in High School

By Jenny Huntington
20:38, November 13th 2008
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Students Mourn After Florida Girl Gunned Down in High School

Thursday, a memorial service for 15-year-old Amanda Collette, who was shot to death on Wednesday in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida high school hallway, was held before students began classes, dozens of colleagues gathering to mourn after the girl.

On Wednesday, as an aftermath of an argument between the two classmates, Collette was gunned down by Teah Wimberly, also 15, who shot her fellow student in the Dillard High School hallway.

Currently, Wimberly is the only one held in custody by the police concerning the case, although authorities are still looking into the motive of the murder.

At approximately 11 a.m. on Wednesday, sophomore Amanda Collette’s body was found in the high school hallway, after she had been shot in the torso during the time students had been changing classes.

Following the incident, Teah Wimberly called the police from a restaurant near Dillard, called Captain Crab's Take-Away, telling the authorities that she had shot her friend.

When the police arrived at the scene, their initial examination of the girl’s body showed no major gun wound, so they were at first led to believe she had not actually been shot.

Nevertheless, authorities soon confirmed the shooting, revealing that it was likely that the gun used to have been a smaller-caliber one and that the wound might have closed itself and thus covered the bullet.

The Thursday service was held around a concrete circle nearby the flag poles that are placed outside the Dillard High School, students then depositing flowers and teddy bears in Collette’s memory.



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