Students returned to classes Tuesday in a district where a beloved teacher was shot to death at a spring graduation dance, allegedly killed by a 14-year-old.

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Authorities would not let reporters approach the children at James W. Parker Middle School in this northwestern Pennsylvania city of about 5,000 people.Andrew Jerome Wurst is accused of using his father's handgun to shoot teacher John Gillette in the head outside a banquet hall on April 24, then walking inside and firing more shots, wounding two students and another teacher.

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