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Another School Shooting, Taft Ca. Update: Sheriff Live Video

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Another shooting has been reported by ABC News in which two people have been shot. The incident occurred at Taft Union High School in Taft, California at 9 a.m. local time. The suspect in the latest school shooting is a student and has been apprehended.

One student victim was airlifted from the school’s science building, where the shooting occurred, to Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California with the person’s condition unknown at this time. Another person was caused minor injuries and refused any medical treatment.

 

A student was shot and wounded at a rural California high school Thursday and a student suspect was taken into custody, officials said.

The shooting occurred about 9 a.m. at Taft Union High School in Taft, a community of fewer than 10,000 people amid oil and natural gas production fields about 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

A shotgun was used in the attack, officials said.

 

The shooter is said to have numerous shot gun shells in his pockets. first report claim a teacher subdued the shooter. These reports are yet to be confirmed.

As word spread, Dayna Hopper rushed to the school to pick up her son Joseph Sorensen, 16, and daughter, Cheryle Pryor, 15, who had called from Cheryle’s cellphone. “I panicked. I wanted to puke and just get here,” Dayna Hopper told The Bakersfield Californian.

Regular updates to follow as I recieve more information. Please check back to this post for more information.

UPDATE: 3:18 pm 

 

KERO-TV Bakersfield reported that the station received phone calls from people inside the school who hid in closets.

The bell had just rung at a nearby school when teachers began shouting for students to get inside buildings, and the principal used an intercom to tell students to stay inside, Felicity Reich, 13, a student at Lincoln Junior High School, told the newspaper.

Shaken, she held the hand of her mother, Ellie Reich, as she spoke.

The student who was shot at the high school was flown to a hospital in Bakersfield, said Ray Pruitt, spokesman for the Kern County Sheriff’s Department. There was no immediate word on the victim’s condition.

Another person suffered some type of injuries in the incident but refused medical attention, Kern County Fire Department Eric Coughran told KBAK-TV.

It was not immediately clear how many students are enrolled at the high school, which includes 9th through 12th grades.

 Masses of parents headed to the school football field to find their children, and officials at other schools took action to protect their students as well, the newspaper said.


Read more: http://nation.time.com/2013/01/10/shooting-reported-at-high-school-in-taft-calif/#ixzz2HbsF4ilh

UPDATE: #2 3:22 pm

 

Kern County Sheriff’s spokesman Ray Pruitt said a student had been shot and flown to a hospital in Bakersfield. Pruitt said a suspect, also believed to be a student, was in custody.

Kern Country Sheriff Donny Youngblood said during a press conference that the 16-year-old victim is listed in critical but stable condition.

 Youngblood said officials were on the scene within one minute of the initial reports.

The teacher in the classroom then engaged the shooter in dialogue and tried to convince him to put down his weapon. The teacher and a campus “resource officer” eventually persuaded the suspect to relinquish his weapon and he was taken into police custody.

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