Texas sheriff: 1 student dead, 1 hurt in school shooting

Relatives told of the girl had only been living in the town for six months.

A junior told CNN that second period had just started when a teacher outside her class began yelling ‘Get in the classroom!’

The shooting happened about 9 a.m.at the school in Alpine, a community of about 6,500 people roughly 200 miles southeast of El Paso.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he’s monitoring developments in the Alpine shooting and promised to provide support for law enforcement agencies investigating the matter. She said one was treated and released, while the other was transferred.

According to KWES-TV, the shooter’s grandparents said their granddaughter was a straight A student with no indication of any trouble at home.

In the confusion that followed, numerous law enforcement officers rushed to the scene and a U.S. marshal accidentally shot a Homeland Security agent, Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson said. When police arrived at the high school, they found what they first thought was a shooting victim but turned out to be the shooter. The district? comprising only one elementary, middle and high school, with about 1,000 students? went into lockdown after the gunfire.

A girl of 14 shot and wounded a female classmate before apparently taking her own life in an attack on a Texas high school. The injured officer was transported to a hospital in Odessa, Texas.

The agent’s condition was described as stable.

The report came in just after 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning, Big Bend Now, the regional newspaper for the area, is currently reporting that two people are injured in the shooting.

NewsChannel5 is reporting that a responding law enforcement officer was shot in the leg when another officer’s gun accidentally discharged.

Local reports tell of police being in the school by the time the shooter committed suicide.

Alpine resident and former Congressman Pete Gallego issued a statement saying, “Alpine has had some rough days, but this has been one of the roughest”.

Police in the West Texas town of Alpine say there’s an “active shooter” situation and schools have been locked down amid the search for a suspect.

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