Santa Fe High School student Dakota Shrader is comforted by her mother Susan Davidson following a shooting at the school on Friday, May 18, in Santa Fe, Texas. https://t.co/WOH0pq8Xii pic.twitter.com/P4qkktyDzH
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Santa Fe: At least eight people, mostly students were killed after a gunman opened fire at a Texas high school on Friday morning, officials said.
The incident took place at Santa Fe High School in the city of the same name, located about 50 kilometres southeast of Houston in Galveston County.
“There was someone that walked in with a shotgun and started shooting, and this girl got shot in the leg,” an eyewitness identified as Nikki told local television station KTRK. The suspect was in custody, the school’s assistant principal, Cris Richardson, told CNN.
A male student was taken into custody after shooting spree inside a high school in southeast Texas left at least eight people dead, the majority believed to be students, the authorities said, reports NYT.
In what has become a national rite, the authorities arrived en masse at a campus, this time at Santa Fe High School, 35 miles from Houston, as students fled in tears. In addition to the suspect, the authorities said another student was detained as a person of interest.
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• The Santa Fe Independent School District said in a tweet that “explosive devices” had been found both on the campus and in surrounding areas.
• The school district said the situation at the school, in Santa Fe, Tex., began at about 7:45 a.m. Friday, just after the start of the school day.
• Sheriff Ed Gonzalez of Harris County said it appeared that “eight to 10” people had been killed, most of them students. None of the victims were immediately identified.
• One of the injured was an officer working for the Santa Fe school district as a school resource officer, said Joe Giusti, a Galveston County commissioner.
• A hospital in Galveston reported that it was treating three patients, including one student-aged and two adults.
• Students and parents were reuniting at a nearby gym. The police were searching the high school’s campus.
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The Santa Fe Police Department, Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Galveston County Sheriff and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives all said they were assisting in the response.
There were three people being treated at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, said Dr. David Marshall, the chief nursing officer. He said one was an adult male, who had a gunshot wound to the arm. He was in critical condition with significant blood loss. The other adult is female, with a gunshot wound to the leg. The other patient was 16 and male, with a gunshot wound to the leg. He was not expected to need surgery.
Trump condemns School Shooting, Vows Action
President Trump on Friday expressed heartbreak and frustration about a deadly school shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, and said his administration would do “everything in our power” to keep guns away from those who should not have them.
“This has been going on for too long in our country — too many years, too many decades now,” Mr. Trump said in the East Room of the White House, where he was making remarks on prison reform.
“My administration is determined to do everything in our power to protect our students, secure our schools, and do everything we can to keep weapons out of the hands of those who pose a threat to themselves and to others,” the president said.
Months ago, Mr. Trump vowed to take action on school safety and gun restrictions in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., in February.