Killing of Kayla Rolland

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Kayla Renee Rolland (May 12, 1993 – February 29, 2000) was a six-year-old American girl from Mount Morris Township, Michigan, United States, who was fatally shot on February 29, 2000, by a six-year-old classmate at Buell Elementary School in Beecher Community School District. The boy had found the gun while living at his uncle's house; the house was a crack house where guns were frequently traded for drugs. The killing drew worldwide attention due to the particularly young ages of the victim and the perpetrator: Rolland was the youngest school shooting victim in the United States until the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, and her assailant remains the youngest fatal school shooting perpetrator to date. The boy was not charged with murder because of his age. Buell Elementary School closed in 2002 and was demolished in 2009. 19-year-old Jamelle James, a family friend with whom the perpetrator was living, was charged with involuntary manslaughter for leaving the gun in a shoe...

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