Two teenage girls are dead after a double shooting this morning at Independence High School, in Glendale, Arizona.
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Their bodies were found near the cafeteria after a shooting was reported at the high school just before 8 a.m., police said.
The local police department assured parents that the incident was “isolated” and the school and neighborhood faced no more threats.
According to police, detectives learned the girls were close friends, and appeared to be in a relationship. You don’t know who’s being bullied. Buses took parents from the Walmart to the school after the lockdown was lifted.
Glendale Union High School District alerted parents to the shooting through emails and automatic phone calls and released information on social media, Superintendent Brian Capistran said.
Parents will be notified as soon as it is safe for students to be picked up from campus. “Your children are safe and this is not a unsafe situation”, Breeden said, according to The Arizona Republic.
All that has been confirmed thus far is that two students have been injured and that police aren’t looking for an active shooter.
“This is not an active shooter situation and we realized that once we got on scene”, says Glendale Police Officer Tracey Breeden.
Dozens of anxious parents are waiting at a convenience store for word about their kids after police say two teens were shot at a high school in a Phoenix suburb. You don’t know anything.
ABC15 showed aerial footage of the hexagon-shaped high school, with its sports field empty and the street in front of the campus shut down.
Some nearby schools in the Glendale Elementary School District also went into lockdown as a “precautionary measure”.
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“I commend the police officers, first responders, school safety officials, teachers and school administrators for their swift response and diligent work to secure the area and protect the students at the school”.
