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8A Daily News – Tuesday, October 22, 2013 Student kills teacher, hurts 2 boys at Nev. school SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — A student at a Nevada middle school opened fire on campus just before the starting bell Monday, wounding two boys and killing a teacher who was trying to protect other children, Sparks police and the victim's family said. Twenty to thirty students witnessed the tragedy at Sparks Middle School that also left the lone suspected gunman dead, police said. It's unclear whether the student committed suicide, but authorities say no shots were fired by law enforcement. Police said between 150 and 200 officers, including some from as far as 60 miles away, responded to the shooting. ''In my estimation, he is a hero. ... We do know he was trying to intervene,'' Reno Deputy Police Chief Tom Robinson said of the teacher who was killed, who initially was identified only as a staff member. Family members identified him as math teacher Michael Landsberry, a 45year-old military veteran who leaves behind a wife and two stepdaughters ''To hear that he was trying to stop that is not surprising by any means,'' said his sister-in-law Chanda Landsberry. She added his life could be summed up by his love of family, his students and his country. On his school website, Michael Landsberry posted a picture of a brown bear and took on a tough-love tone, telling students, ''I have one classroom rule and it is very simple: 'Thou Shall Not Annoy Mr. L.''' ''The kids loved him,'' Chanda Landsberry said. The names of the suspect and two other victims have not yet been released, and the motive for the shooting is still unknown. ''As you can imagine, the best description is chaos,'' Robinson said. ''It's too early to say whether he was targeting people or going on an indiscriminate shooting spree.'' Students from the middle school and neighboring elementary school were evacuated to the nearby high school, and classes were canceled. The middle school will remain closed for the week. At the evacuation center, parents comforted their children. ''We came flying down here to get our kids,'' said Mike Fiorica, whose nephew attends the school. AP photo A Sparks Middle School student cries and is comforted after being released from Agnes Risley Elementary School, where some students were evacuated to after a shooting at SMS in Sparks, Nev. on Monday. A middle school student opened fire on campus just before the starting bell Monday, wounding two boys and killing a staff member who was trying to protect other children, Sparks police said Monday. The lone suspected gunman was also dead, though it's unclear whether the student committed suicide. ''... It's really chaotic. You can imagine how parents are feeling. You don't know if your kid's OK.'' One of the students injured in the violence that erupted around 7:15 a.m. is out of surgery and the other is doing well, according to police. The shooting happened on the school's campus and ended outside the school building itself, according to police. ''I was deeply saddened to learn of the horrific shooting at Sparks Middle School this morning,'' Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said in a statement extending his thoughts and prayers to those affected. About 700 students in 7th and 8th grades are enrolled at the school, located in a working class neighborhood. ''It's not supposed to happen here,'' Chanda Landsberry said. ''We're just Sparks — little Sparks, Nevada. It's unreal.'' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, offered his condolences to those who experienced a ''traumatic morning.'' ''No words of condolence could possibly ease the pain, but I hope it is some small comfort that Nevada mourns with them,'' Reid said in a statement. The violence erupted nearly a year after a gunman horrified the nation by opening fire in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., leaving 26 dead. The Dec. 14 shooting ignited debate over how best to protect the nation's schools and whether armed teachers should be part of that equation. In a statement on the website of Sandy Hook Promise, a gun control advocacy group, Nicole Hockley, whose son Dylan was killed in the shooting said, ''It's moments like this that demand that we unite as parents to find commonsense solutions that keep our children — all children — safe, and prevent these tragedies from happening again and again.'' The Washoe County School District held a session in the spring in light of the Connecticut tragedy to educate parents on what safety measures the district takes. Sparks, a city of roughly 90,000 that sprung out of the railway industry, lies just east of Reno. Mayor Geno Martini spoke at a morning press conference to assure residents that the community was safe. ''It's a tragic day in the city of Sparks,'' he said. ''This is just an isolated incident.'' Families hoard cash 5 years after crisis NEW YORK (AP) — Five years after U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a global financial crisis and shattering confidence worldwide, families in major countries around the world are still hunkered down, too spooked and distrustful to take chances with their money. An Associated Press analysis of households in the 10 biggest economies shows that families continue to spend cautiously and have pulled hundreds of billions of dollars out of stocks, cut borrowing for the first time in decades and poured money into savings and bonds that offer puny interest payments, often too low to keep up with inflation. "It doesn't take very much to destroy confi- dence, but it takes an awful lot to build it back," says Ian Bright, senior economist at ING, a global bank based in Amsterdam. "The attitude toward risk is permanently reset." A flight to safety on such a global scale is unprecedented since the end of World War II. The implications are huge: Shunning debt and spending less can be good for one family's finances. When hundreds of millions do it together, it can starve the global economy. Weak growth around the world means wages in the United States, which aren't keeping up with inflation, will continue to rise slowly. Record unemployment in parts of Europe, higher than 35 percent among youth in several countries, won't fall quickly. Another wave of Chinese, Brazilians and Indians rising into the middle class, as hundreds of millions did during the boom years last decade, is unlikely. Some of the retrenchment is not surprising: High unemployment in many countries means fewer people with paychecks to spend. Some people who lost jobs got new ones that pay less or are part time. But even people with good jobs and little fear of losing them remain cautious. "Lehman changed everything," says Arne Holzhausen, a senior economist at global insurer Allianz, based in Munich. "It's safety, safety, safety." The AP analyzed data showing what consumers did with their money in the five years before the Great Recession began in December 2007 and in the five years that followed, through the end of 2012. The focus was on the world's 10 biggest economies — the U.S., China, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Russia, Italy and India — which have half the world's population and 65 percent of global gross domestic product. Key findings: — RETREAT FROM STOCKS: A desire for safety drove people to dump stocks, even as prices rocketed from crisis lows in early 2009, and put their money into bonds. Investors in the top 10 countries pulled $1.1 trillion from stock mutual funds in the five years after the crisis, or 10 percent of what they had invested at the start of that period, according to Lipper Inc., which tracks funds. — SHUNNING DEBT: Household debt surged at an unprecedented rate in the five years before the financial crisis. In the U.S., the U.K. and France, it soared more FREE KIDS SCOOP with purchase of equal or greater value Must present coupon 905 Walnut St. | Red Bluff • 528-1698 11am-9pm • 7 days facebook.com/scoopsofredbluff http://www.facebook.com/scoopsofredbluff CattleWomen's Luncheon & Fashion Show than 50 percent per adult, according to Credit Suisse. For all 10 countries, it jumped 34 percent. Then the financial crisis hit, and people slammed the brakes on borrowing. Debt per adult in the 10 countries fell 1 percent in the 41⁄2 years after 2007. Economists say debt hasn't fallen in sync like that since the end of World War II. People chose to shed debt even as lenders slashed rates on loans to record lows. In normal times, that would have triggered an avalanche of borrowing. — HOARDING CASH: Looking for safety for their money, households in the six biggest developed economies added $3.3 trillion, or 15 percent, to their cash holdings in the five years after the crisis, slightly more than they did in the five years before, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. — SPENDING SLUMP: Cutting debt and saving more may be good in the long term, but to do that, people have had to rein in their spending. Adjusting for inflation, global consumer spending rose 1.6 percent a year during the five years after the crisis, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, an accounting and consulting firm. 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