CHICAGO:Police rushed to a highschool in Santa Fe, Texas on Friday after an assailant with a gun wounded folks in the most recent capturing to rock a rustic nonetheless shaken by way of the bloodbath at a Florida highschool in February.
The college district in Santa Fe, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Houston, mentioned the situation was once "active, but has been contained." Local media reported that a suspect was once in custody.
"There have been confirmed injuries," the Santa Fe college district mentioned in a commentary.
A Santa Fe Police Department spokesman may not straight away verify details. Local media mentioned a clinical Life Flight was once dispatched to the varsity.
The latest conceivable capturing at a U.S. college underscored a renewed nationwide debate over gun control and gun rights that has intensified after an assailant killed 17 students and body of workers on Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Aerial video outdoor the Santa Fe college broadcast on native tv confirmed police escorting strains of students out of the building and then looking them for weapons as many police automobiles and at least two ambulances with lights flashing stood by way of.
Sophomore Leila Butler informed the native ABC affiliate that fireplace alarms went off at about 7:45 a.m. native time and scholars left their classrooms. She mentioned some students believe they heard shots fired, and that she was once sheltering with different students and teachers close to campus.
Another sophomore, named handiest as Nikki, informed ABC13 that: "Someone had walked in with a shotgun and a girl got shot in her leg."
In February, the highschool was once placed on lockdown while police investigated a "popping sound" that was once feared to be gunshots, but no risk was once discovered, the varsity district mentioned.
That was once a false alarm, but college shootings have happened regularly in the United States since the Parkland bloodbath.
Last Friday morning a 14-year-old boy shot and wounded a scholar at a Southern California highschool prior to fleeing the scene and being arrested, police mentioned.
Then on Wednesday a police officer assigned to an Illinois highschool shot and wounded a 19-year-old former scholar who had brought a gun to the varsity, government mentioned.
The college district in Santa Fe, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Houston, mentioned the situation was once "active, but has been contained." Local media reported that a suspect was once in custody.
"There have been confirmed injuries," the Santa Fe college district mentioned in a commentary.
A Santa Fe Police Department spokesman may not straight away verify details. Local media mentioned a clinical Life Flight was once dispatched to the varsity.
The latest conceivable capturing at a U.S. college underscored a renewed nationwide debate over gun control and gun rights that has intensified after an assailant killed 17 students and body of workers on Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Aerial video outdoor the Santa Fe college broadcast on native tv confirmed police escorting strains of students out of the building and then looking them for weapons as many police automobiles and at least two ambulances with lights flashing stood by way of.
Sophomore Leila Butler informed the native ABC affiliate that fireplace alarms went off at about 7:45 a.m. native time and scholars left their classrooms. She mentioned some students believe they heard shots fired, and that she was once sheltering with different students and teachers close to campus.
Another sophomore, named handiest as Nikki, informed ABC13 that: "Someone had walked in with a shotgun and a girl got shot in her leg."
In February, the highschool was once placed on lockdown while police investigated a "popping sound" that was once feared to be gunshots, but no risk was once discovered, the varsity district mentioned.
That was once a false alarm, but college shootings have happened regularly in the United States since the Parkland bloodbath.
Last Friday morning a 14-year-old boy shot and wounded a scholar at a Southern California highschool prior to fleeing the scene and being arrested, police mentioned.
Then on Wednesday a police officer assigned to an Illinois highschool shot and wounded a 19-year-old former scholar who had brought a gun to the varsity, government mentioned.
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