Jared Lee Loughner’s first contact with the Pima County Sheriff came on Sept. 23, 2004. But it wasn’t for anything he did. The assistant principal at Mountain View High School contacted police to report that Loughner reported being struck with a pin coming out of a pen in the cafeteria.Loughner said he was sitting in the cafeteria talking to friends when a student identified as Anthony “Tony” Kurz had walked by him and poked him with something sharp. He started to “become pale, got dizzy, could not stand and had to be helped to a nurse’s office by another friend,” according to he report.
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