A student and a teacher were wounded when a gunman opened fire at a high school in California on Thursday morning, authorities there say.
The shooting occurred in the science building at Taft Union High School in Taft, Calif., at approximately 9 a.m. local time.
According to the Police, the suspected shooter—a student at the school—was taken into custody, and a shotgun was recovered at the scene. Panicked Kern County parents rushed to the school to check on their sons and daughters.
One victim, a fellow student, was airlifted to Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, Calif., with a shotgun wound to the upper right chest, the official said. The extent of the student's injuries were not known.
A second person, identified by the official as a teacher at the school, was also injured, but declined medical treatment. The injury does not appear to be related to the shooting itself, the official said.
According to the school's website, "two campus supervisors and a Kern County Sheriff monitor the campus before, during, and after school." The sheriff's official did not know whether the officer was on duty at the time of the shooting. About 1,000 students attend the high school.
Students were evacuated while sheriff and fire personnel conducted room-to-room searches. One student told the network that he was in another building participating in an "active shooter drill" when the shooting occurred.
