Affidavit details shooting of three people at Kansas school

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A police affidavit released Wednesday says a student at a Kansas high school began shooting after an administrator and school resource officer demanded to search his backpack because of rumors the student had a gun.

The student, 18-year-old Jaylon Desean Elmore, fired five shots toward the school resource officer at Olathe East High School on March 4 before he was shot by the officer and subdued by the assistant principal, according to the affidavit.

Elmore's “ghost gun,” was loaded with 13 9 mm rounds but a spent round blocked the gun’s slide from closing before more shots were fired, according to the affidavit written by Olathe police Sgt. Jeremiah Waters.

Elmore was wounded along with assistant principal Kaleb Stoppel and Erik Clark, the school’s resource officer. Stoppel and Clark were released from the hospital the same day.

Elmore, who remains hospitalized, has been charged with attempted capital murder.

According to the affidavit, a student told school counselor Ann Book that students on a bus were talking about a student named Jay who was bringing a gun to school and had pulled it once on another student. Book reported that information to Stoppel.

Stoppel and another assistant principal, Leslie Simons, initially questioned a different student before bringing Elmore to the office. When Stoppel told Elmore he wanted to search his backpack, the student became defensive, moved the backpack to the front of his body, and refused to let him search it, according to the affidavit. Stoppel then texted Clark to come to the office.

Clark told investigators that when he arrived and went to intervene, Elmore pulled out the gun and fired at him, prompting him to shoot Elmore. The affidavit does not say how many shots Clark fired.

Stoppel said he tried to...