Texas police kill 8th-grader flashing pellet gun in school
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Here's more information about the gun from Brownsville police:
The weapon used by the suspect is a CO2 .177-caliber pellet pistol and is similar to a Glock type semiautomatic handgun. The preliminary investigation indicates that the suspect assaulted a student prior to the officers' arrival and made statements to witnesses that he was going to engage the officers with the weapon.Update at 6:25 p.m. ET: The weapon was a pellet gun that looked like a real firearm, AP now reports.
Update at 6:06 p.m. ET: The dead student has been identified as Jaime Gonzalez, 15, the San Antonio paper reports.