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Millard South Community Rallies Following Shooting
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What happened
On January 5, 2011, a shooting occurred at Millard South High School in Omaha, Nebraska. Robert Butler Jr., a 17-year-old senior at the school, had been suspended that morning for trespassing on school grounds after an earlier incident on New Year's Day in which he drove his car onto the school's football field.
At approximately 12:45 p.m., Butler returned to the school armed with a Glock .40-caliber pistol he had taken from his father's cabinet. He signed in for an appointment with vice principal Vicki Kaspar, walked into her office, and shot her. Moments later, principal Curtis Case ran into the hallway and was shot several times in the chest and hip. Butler then moved into the front office area, firing randomly; gunshot debris caused minor injuries to the school nurse.
After the shooting inside the school, Butler left the building and drove approximately two miles to a nearby BP gas station, where he fatally shot himself inside his vehicle. It was later reported that Butler had consumed K2, a synthetic cannabis product, before the shootings.
During the incident, Millard South High School went into lockdown, a measure that was later extended to all 21,000 students across the Millard School District. Kaspar and Case were both hospitalized at Saint Joseph Hospital at Creighton University Medical Center. Several hours later, Kaspar died of multiple head and chest wounds.
The shooting was described as the deadliest school shooting in Nebraska's history and the second such incident in the state's modern history, following a 1995 shooting in Chadron that left a teacher injured.
Because the perpetrator died at the scene of his own gunshot wound, no criminal charges were filed and no prosecution occurred.
