Huntersville, N.c.
A teenager shot and killed himself Wednesday shortly after pointing a handgun at two other students in a high school parking lot, police said.Schools in Huntersville were locked down after the 16-year-old, whose name wasn't released, made threatening gestures in a parking lot at North Mecklenburg High School, police said.
The student, who attended the school, turned the gun on himself when police confronted him at a gas station, said Capt. Michael Kee of the Huntersville Police Department. He later died, said Tahira Stalbert, a spokeswoman for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
Police alerted four schools after the student left the high school's campus, Kee said.
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