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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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