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pre said.
• The local prosecutor said the teen is being charged as an adult. He has not yet been arraigned or indicted, so The Associated Press is withholding his name because he is a minor. His attorney didn't immediately return a phone message.
• The boys, both 16, were classmates at Riggs High School.
• A 16-year-old witness who was hanging out with the boys told detectives that Williams and the other boy began to wrestle around jokingly after arguing about a paintball game.
• The accused shooter then retrieved a semi-automatic shotgun, walked into the kitchen area and pointed it at the witness, according to the arrest affidavit.
• The witness said he heard the gun click, then saw the accused shooter take a shotgun shell from a drawer, load the gun and point it at him again. The witness said he then heard another click, according to the affidavit.
• The witness told police he was trying to leave the house through a sliding glass door when Williams stepped in between him and the accused shooter. The witness told detectives that the gun fired and he observed a splatter, according to the affidavit.
• The witness then left the house and called 911.
• Grandpre said law enforcement, Pierre School District personnel and mental health professionals are providing support to the school and community.
• "We're continuing the investigation to make sure we understand everything that we believe happened inside the house," he said Wednesday.
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• HOUSTON (AP) -- A Texas landowner battling TransCanada Corp. says a judge has declined for now to hear arguments on whether to temporarily stop work on the property.
• Michael Bishop says a Nacogdoches County judge put off a hearing scheduled for Wednesday until he can determine whether the matter should be in state court.
• Bishop wants work on his property to cease until the judge rules on whether the product TransCanada plans to carry through it is crude oil.
• TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline is meant to transport tar sands -- or diluted bitumen -- from Canada to Texas. Bishop says tar sand isn't crude oil.
• The section of the pipeline that would cross the international border has not been approved. A shorter portion from Oklahoma to Texas is under construction.
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