A school shooting early Friday morning at Sante Fe High School, south of Houston, has left “multiple fatalities,” according to the Houston Chronicle.
At least eight people were killed, the Chronicle said, citing federal and county law enforcement officials. The school is no longer an active shooting situation, and a suspect has been arrested and secured, local officials said. The injured — among them at least one police officer — are being treated, local officials said. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office was deployed to the Galveston County school to assist with a “multiple-casualty incident.”
Law enforcement agencies were securing the building and students were being transported to the nearby Alamo Gym, where they could reunite with parents, the district said.
One student, sophomore Leila Butler, told local news that fire alarms went off at the 1,400-student high school around 7:45 a.m. Another student said a gunman entered an art class wielding what looked like a shotgun and began shooting.
Source: Texas Tribune Blue Government News
