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| Taft Union High School (Bobak Ha'Eri/Wikimedia Commons) |
UPDATED, 11:30 a.m. PT: At least one person was shot at a high school in California on Thursday morning, authorities there say.
The sheriff's official said the suspected shooter--a student at the school--was taken into custody, and a shotgun was recovered at the scene.
One victim, a fellow student, was
airlifted to Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, Calif., with a shotgun
wound to the upper right chest, the official said. The official did not
comment on their condition.
A second person, identified by
the official as a teacher at the school, was also injured, but denied
medical treatment. The injury does not appear to be related to the
shooting itself, the official said.
ABC's Kero-Bakersfield affiliate
said it received calls from students who were hiding in closets inside
the school, located about 120 miles north of Los Angeles.
Students were evacuated while
sheriff's and fire personnel conducted room-to-room searches at the
school. The high school was featured in the 1986 film "The Best of
Times" starring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell.
The shootings come less than a
month after 26 people, including 20 children, were killed at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in one of the worst school
shootings in U.S. history--leading to calls for reform to the country's
gun laws.
On Thursday, Vice President Joe
Biden, appointed to lead a task force to reduce U.S. gun violence, was
scheduled to meet with members of the National Rifle Association in
Washington to discuss gun control.
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