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Two Local High Schools Dealing with Tragedy

Two Local High Schools Dealing with Tragedy - Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 04:04AM EST

Reported by: Eyewitness News
Sunday May 09 2010
The school week will start with grief counseling at a couple of local high schools. Two teenagers died in separate tragedies.

Mifflinburg Area High School will have counselors helping students coping with the death of Anthony Hernandez. The 16-year-old sophomore died from a gunshot wound to the chest early Saturday morning at a West Buffalo Township home.

Another teen was handling the gun when it went off. Police aren't saying what -- if any charges -- they'll file.

And grief counselors will help Lackawanna Trail students cope with the death of a 16-year-old Dalton girl. Delaney Sandercock drowned Friday in a boating crash on Lake Winola.

Her father was driving the boat when he crashed into a barge. Divers searched four hours before finding the girl's body 50-feet deep in the lake.

Her 13-year-old brother, Evan, remains in fair condition at Janet Weis Children's Hospital while the father, Gregg Sandercock's condition is unavailable.