Taft High School is the latest school to experience a shooting which left two people injured and the shooter was arrested at the school, according to reports.
The incident was reported shortly after 9 a.m. in the city of Taft, a small town southwest of Bakersfield. Students were evacuated to a football field, and as of 10:30 a.m., authorities were still searching the building, according to the Associated Press.
The suspected shooter-a 16-year-old male student at the school-did not show up for the start of first period, a Kern County Sheriff's official told Yahoo News. He entered the school with a 12-gauge shotgun and interrupted his first-period class, shooting one student. The shotgun had been recovered from a building on campus where the shooting occurred.
Taft is a community of about 7,000 located 30 miles southwest of Bakersfield, in San Joaquin Valley.
A local television station, KERO 23 in Bakersfield, reported that the station had received calls from students who said they were huddled in closets. Sheriff's officials were going classroom to classroom clearing the campus, the station reported.
The condition of the injured student was not immediately known.
According to a document posted on the high school's website, administrators employ 43 security cameras in common areas, such as the cafeteria, hallways and at entryways to several structures on school grounds. The Kern County Sheriff's Department also employs a full-time resources officer.
