Utah boy shoots self in front of classmates

TAYLORSVILLE — School district officials say a student has died in an apparent suicide near a Taylorsville junior high.

Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley says the 14-year-old boy had left Bennion Junior High with his mother about 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Horsley says the ninth-grader later returned to a pedestrian bridge near the school and shot himself in front of other students after classes let out.

Horsley says the district is providing crisis counselors to talk with students and families in the wake of the death. He says the district is working with police to determine what may have set off the boy’s action.