Student Brings Gun on School Field Trip, Shoots Self in Front of Classmates

Police said the ninth grader from Canyon View Junior High shot themselves while on a field trip at South Fork Park. (Source: KSL via CNN Newsource)

By Dan Rascon, KSL via CNN Newsource

Published: Sep. 26, 2025

OREM, Utah (KSL) – Students from a school in Utah are traumatized after a classmate brought a gun on a field trip and shot themselves in front of others.

Police said the ninth grader from Canyon View Junior High shot themselves while on a field trip at South Fork Park.

That student was flown to a local hospital, where they died.

KSL does not normally report on suicides, but because the student brought a gun to school and fired it in front of other students, it brings it to another level.

A group of ninth grade students put up a memorial outside the school in memory of the student who died.

They didn’t want to talk on camera, but said they heard the gunshot, which shocked and scared everyone.

Further information was not released.

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