Gunfire broke out during a high school football game on a warm late-summer evening in Louisiana, killing a 16-year-old student and wounding a woman in the arm, authorities said Saturday.
Police have made no arrests and investigators still don't know why the violence erupted at halftime Friday in an area next to the stands, Sgt. Landon Groger with the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office said.
The game was suspended as stunned spectators headed for the parking lot, which was filled with emergency vehicles. The West Baton Rouge School Board said crisis teams will be available to talk with and assist students when classes resume after Labor Day weekend. Security would be increased at schools, and Superintendent Chandler Smith said the district will bolster existing programs “to teach our students that violence destroys many people’s lives.”___
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