Students from All Saints Catholic School in Davenport were scheduled to tour the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., today, but it is closed after a deadly shooting there Wednesday.
All Saints Principal Tammy Conrad said the 21 seventh and eighth grade students and four chaperones were visiting Mount Vernon at the time authorities said an 88-year-old man with a violent anti-Semitic past exchanged gunfire with security guards at the museum. Mount Vernon is about 20 miles outside the city.
“All the kids have contacted their parents and everybody is OK,” Conrad said. “Every teacher in the building has called to check on them.”
She added, “Everybody’s doing well and was sorry to hear that (shooting) had taken place.”
The group left on the field trip Monday, she said. “It’s a quick trip. Their schedule is full while they’re out there.”
The group is scheduled to leave Washington tonight and be back in the Quad-Cities about 10 a.m. Friday, Conrad said.
Posted in Local on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:35 pm | Tags: All Saints Catholic School, Washington, D.c., United States Holocaust Museum, Shooting
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