Four injured in Texas high school shooting
HOUSTON, TEXAS | Four people were injured Wednesday in a school shooting in Arlington, Texas, when a student opened fire after a scuffle with another student before fleeing, local police said.
Of the four injured, three were taken to hospital, Deputy Police Chief Kevin Kolbye told a press conference.
He did not specify the severity of these injuries.
The fourth was treated on site for minor injuries.
Three of the victims are students and the fourth person is older, he added, without being able to say whether it was a teacher or a member of the staff of the establishment.
Police were notified at around 9:15 a.m. of shots fired on the first floor of Timberview High School, he said.
The shooter is an 18-year-old pupil, Timothy George Simpkins. He fled by car after opening fire and is actively wanted, according to police who consider him "armed and dangerous".
According to Mr. Kolbye, the shooting was the result of a brawl between students in a classroom. “We believe there was a fight between the student and another individual, a weapon was used,” he said.
“It was not a random act of violence,” he added.
The images broadcast by televisions showed a strong police presence Wednesday around the establishment which accommodates just under 2,000 students in this city located between Dallas and Fort Worth, in the upstate.
The high school was placed in lockdown after the gunfire and while police carried out "systematic searches" to find the perpetrator of the shots.
"My daughter is in a classroom," and "my son is a little scared," said one student parent, Ontario Hewitt, when interviewed by the local CBS channel at the scene.
The students were to be evacuated by bus to a meeting place with their families once the search was completed, Kolbye said.
School shootings have been a real scourge in American society since the Columbine, Colorado, massacre in April 1999.
They are usually listed by local media, but rarely make national media headlines. Only a bloodbath, as in a high school in Parkland, Florida in February 2018, which killed 17 people, is now causing a shock wave.
The images broadcast by televisions showed a strong police presence Wednesday around the establishment which accommodates just under 2,000 students in this city located between Dallas and Fort Worth, in the upstate.
The high school was placed in lockdown after the gunfire and while police carried out "systematic searches" to find the perpetrator of the shots.
"My daughter is in a classroom," and "my son is a little scared," said one student parent, Ontario Hewitt, when interviewed by the local CBS channel at the scene.
The students were to be evacuated by bus to a meeting place with their families once the search was completed, Kolbye said.
School shootings have been a real scourge in American society since the Columbine, Colorado, massacre in April 1999.
They are usually listed by local media, but rarely make national media headlines. Only a bloodbath, as in a high school in Parkland, Florida in February 2018, which killed 17 people, is now causing a shock wave.
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