Armed student, 15, is shot by deputy

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An eighth-grader was shot and wounded by a SWAT officer in a school bathroom Friday after the teen pulled out a pellet gun that resembled a real weapon and raised it at a deputy, authorities said.

Sheriff Don Eslinger said the 15-year-old boy, identified as Christopher David Penley, brought the gun to Milwee Middle School in suburban Orlando in his backpack. Eslinger said two students saw it and one persuaded the other to report it, causing a scuffle.

Deputies called to the school isolated the teen in a restroom, and the school was evacuated.

When the teen raised the gun at a deputy, he shot the youth, the sheriff said. Penley was on "advanced life support" at a hospital, Eslinger said.