BREAKING: The Latest on the Shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas! 10 Dead, More injured. Shooter Identified! Police Find Bombs! 😢😱😢
A shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas has left up to 10 people dead and police bomb squads frantically searching the city outside Houston for explosives after bombs were found at the school and in an area nearby.
One suspect, believed to be a student, is in custody following the shooting Friday morning. A police officer was critically wounded in the shooting and at least four others were wounded.
“There have been explosive devices found in the high school and surrounding areas adjacent to the high school. Because of the threat of explosive items, community members should be on the look-out for suspicious packages and anything that looks out of place,” Santa Fe Independent School District said in an update hours after the shooting.
“Do not touch any items out of place and call 911 as we have agencies that can respond.”
The Santa Fe school district said police bomb squads were working to dispose of the explosive devices. The school, which has more than 1,400 students, has been fully evacuated.
17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis is the gunman and he is now in police custody.
This is the 22nd school shooting of 2018. It follows another active shooting on Wednesday at Dixon High School in central Illinois, where a school resource officer shot and wounded a former student who opened fire at the school. It came three months after 17 people were killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. That shooting sparked mass protests and calls for tougher gun control restrictions in the U.S.
A clip from Houston’s KTRK-TV featuring an interview with one student from Santa Fe High School has gone viral in the aftermath of the shooting. In it, the student responds to a reporter who asks if she couldn’t believe a shooting was happening at her school.
“It’s been happening everywhere. I felt like eventually it was going to happen here, too,” the student says. “I wasn’t surprised. I was just scared.”
Ed Gonzalez, the sheriff of neighboring Harris County, said eight to 10 people died in the shooting and that most of the victims are students. The school district later clarified that fatalities were believed to be “fewer than ten.”
He also said one suspect was in custody and one other person had been detained. Both are believed to be students.
University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston said doctors were treating three patients from the shooting, two adults and one minor.
One patient was a police officer who arrived in critical condition after being shot in the arm. Another adult, a woman, was wounded in the leg and was being operated on. The minor had a gunshot wound to the leg, doctors said.
Doctors at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center said eight patients, all students, were treated there. Six were released. Two remain in the hospital. One is in critical condition and the other is in fair condition.
Students at Santa Fe High School told local TV stations that the gunman opened fire in an art class during first period.
Students were evacuating the school and being bused to nearby Alamo Gym so that they could be reunited with their parents.
An emergency dispatcher for Santa Fe police confirmed to TIME that officers were on scene at the school but provided no other details.
Santa Fe is about 35 miles southeast of Houston.
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