MADISON, Ala. – Extra police will be on hand as a north Alabama middle school reopens for the first time since a ninth grader was fatally shot in a hallway.
Madison school superintendent Dee Fowler says students at Discovery Middle School need each other after what happened on Friday. That’s one reason leaders decided to reopen the school on Monday.
But extra police officers will be on the campus, and Fowler said the school will have a liberal absentee policy.
A 14-year-old boy was arrested after the fatal shooting of fellow ninth-grader Todd Brown inside the school on Friday. The youth could be certified to stand trial as an adult on a murder charge during a hearing Monday afternoon.