Wake County students join national walkout to call attention to school shootings

Groups of students across the country walked out of their classrooms Friday to bring attention to gun violence in schools. The group Students Demand Action led more than a hundred registered walkouts today across the country, including several in Wake County.

In Morrisville, about 200 students at Wake Early College of Information and Biotechnologies held a demonstration at noon.

Senior Biruk Yidnekachew, the school’s student body president, helped organize the march with the Young Citizens Club. He said it’s a reaction to the recent shooting of students attending mass with their classmates at the Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis at the start of this school year…

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