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The Mumford High School shooting was an incident that occurred right after the first day of school (September 8, 2010). Mumford is a Detroit public high school located on Detroit’s Westside near McNicholes and Wyoming. Mumford experienced a devastating first day of school, having to take on the responsibility of two gun wounded students, one female and the other male. In schools today violence is not strongly enforced, until someone gets seriously hurt and should be detected before it gets to that point. The problems that arise during school hours should be dealt with before that student leaves the school, whether it's suspension, detention or a write up to insure the safely of their students.

The Shooting

The first day of school Mumford high school had to have two students rushed to the hospital for gun shot wounds. The shooting took place just feet away from school property, and witnesses say the incident began with a fight at the school that spilled out into the streets. It is noted that a group of juveniles approached a student then he fired shots fatally wounding two students, one was only an innocent bystander. The violence in schools has to come to an end, tighter security and identifying the possible trouble makers will be the only way to prevent school shootings. Mumford is not the only school that has experienced a fatally shooting, but is the most recent.

A student was fatally shot and three others were wounded not far from Henry Ford High School in October 2008. The victims' parents filed a lawsuit this year against the district, claiming Henry Ford officials failed to prevent the attack, which followed a fight inside the building earlier that day.

In February 2009, a former Central High School student was shot on the second floor of the school near the end of the school day. A few months later, seven teenagers, including five students at Cody Ninth Grade Academy, were shot and wounded while waiting at a bus stop near that school.

Victims wounded

The victims wounded in the shooting were a 14 year old girl who was grazed near her eyebrow and, a 16 year old boy who was shot in the buttocks. The students leaving school were also the victims in the Mumford School shooting because, usually anyone around having to experience someone getting hurt or shot, when school is for students to come and receive an education are, usually the victims as well. The other wounded victim was a man killed by police while look Officers were in the area looking for clues and talking to witnesses about the shooting. They went to an apartment in the 200 block of Merton. That’s where they encountered a man with a gun in the hallway.

When ordered to drop the weapon, the man allegedly pointed it at officers who then shot and killed him. Police say they were there in regards to the shooting but would neither confirm nor deny if the man was a part of that. Later studies say the man was not involved in the Mumford high school shooting

"The madness needs to stop," Cooper said during a press conference at Detroit Police Department headquarters Friday. "Every kid should be able to go to and from school without being shot."

Trial/Aftermath

Steven Jamal Hare, 17, of Detroit was arraigned Friday afternoon in the city's 36th District Court on two counts of assault with intent to murder, two counts of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and weapons charges. The assault charges carry potential life sentences.

Two juvenile males are being held in connection to the incident. Prosecutors say they have yet to determine whether they also will face charges.

Due to the shooting more than a quarter of buses were late the first day of school picking up students and, some were even short staffed as a result parents dropped students out of Mumford and the next day some teachers did not show up to work.