4.17.2010

(KS) Students Gather- Recall 12 year old who was killed by her Father

Students will gather to recall shooting victim, 12


Gabrielle Morejon

Gabrielle Morejon

     

    Students at St. John LaLande Catholic School in Blue Springs will gather Monday to share memories of Gabrielle Morejon, a seventh-grader shot to death Wednesday at her Lake Lotawana home.

    Investigators believe the 12-year-old was a victim of a murder-suicide. Her father, George Morejon, was found dead in a vehicle behind the house.

    Gabrielle had attended St. John LaLande since she was 3.

    “She was a beautiful, very bright girl,” the school’s principal, Natalie Helm, said Friday.

    The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call about the shooting at 6:10 p.m. Wednesday. The Morejon home was in the 25000 block of Milton Thompson Road.

    A sheriff’s spokesman said Friday that more information would be released when autopsies were completed.

    News of the shooting shocked students at Gabrielle’s school.

    “This is a small school, only 21 in her seventh-grade class, and many of those kids have been together since kindergarten,” Helm said. “They were just grief-stricken. So sad for all of us.”

    A rosary will be part of Monday’s program.

    | Donald Bradley, dbradley@kcstar.com

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