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Grady High student Joe Lavine shot this photo of the gun in the accidental shooting at Grady on Feb. 27. (Joe Lavine, The Southerner)
One of the strongest images to emerge from the accidental shooting 10 days ago at Grady High School was a photo taken by a student photographer who was in-between classes when a classmate accidentally shot herself in the leg in a school courtyard. Grady senior Joe Lavine is on the staff of high school’s nationally acclaimed student newspaper, The Southerner.Lavine has written a guest column about the shooting. (Lavine is interviewing today for a college scholarship. Good luck to him.)
By Joe Lavine
Yes, I took the picture of the gun a Grady High classmate accidentally discharged last week in