Dodson says investigators are looking for the caller and he could face federal charges.
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‘Sheriff Dodson said someone called them and said “y’all better leave me alone”‘ and made threats against the school. She was a freshman at the school.
A teenage girl took a gun to a rural high school in west Texas on Thursday and shot another girl before shooting herself, authorities said. Dodson says the 14-year-old later died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The name of the deceased shooter hasn’t been released.
The victim has been hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, the sheriff said.
The sheriff said the family of the girl who died had moved to the Alpine area about six months ago.
Police dispatcher Scarlet Eldred said an unspecified incident took place at the high school shortly before 9 a.m. Eldred says police were seeking an “active shooter”.
Alpine is 355 kilometres southeast of El Paso. Hucke didn’t specify which patient was released, but officials said the injured officer was transferred to a hospital in Odessa.
One student shot inside the band hall treated for injuries..
A motive for the shooting is unclear.
A student at the school was shot but is still alive, and an officer was reportedly shot as well in what appears to be an accidental shooting, Dodson said.
Alpine police Chief Russell Scown said even after the shooter was found mortally wounded in a bathroom at the school, it wasn’t immediately clear that she was the assailant.
The sheriff said the threat was later deemed a hoax, but that it required officers to rush to the university from the high school.
‘There was blood on the floor in the cafeteria that I saw when we went past it on our way out of the school, ‘ the student said.
After a time, a law enforcement officer banged on the classroom door and ushered the students out, she said.
A Twitter user, identified only as key, wrote at 8:25 a.m.: “as a student of alpine high, I want to thank the law enforcement for their awesome effort to keep us safe”.
Police in the West Texas town earlier said they were dealing with an “active shooter” situation and schools were locked down as officers searched for a suspect.
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“It looks like she shot another individual, and that individual had run out into the street”, Brewster said.
