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Tuesday, March 6, 2001 SANTEE, Calif. (UPI) – Two youths were killed and 13 people were wounded at a suburban San Diego County high school Monday when a "smiling" student apparently carried out a threat he had made earlier and opened fire. Students told reporters amid the chaos outside Santana High School that the youth had teasingly warned friends over the weekend that he was going to shoot up the school. Chris Reynolds, a friend of a woman whose son, Josh, was a classmate of the alleged shooter, said he had been unnerved during the weekend when Josh told his mother of repeated statements the 15-year-old allegedly made to the effect that he planned to shoot someone at school. Reynolds said he pressed the youth to the point of threatening to call the sheriff's department, but the suspect said he was joking, something he apparently did frequently. "He laughs a lot," Reynolds told reporters before being whisked away for questioning by detectives. "He is always joking." The...name..not released..he is a juvenile. District Attorney...said he could be charged as an adult... Confused reports from students indicated the suspect opened fire inside a boys' restroom shortly before 9:30 a.m. PST and then turned his handgun on the quad. Among the wounded were school security staff members who had rushed to the scene. A student told reporters that he and one of the security people, who are known by students as "narcs," were in the restroom when the shooting began. "He didn't shoot me, but he shot the narc behind me, and the narc fell on top of me," said the student, whose name was not immediately released. Sheriff Bill Kolender released few details other than that one of his deputies was on campus to teach a class and was on the scene within minutes.

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