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West Texas police search for shooter as schools are put on lockdown Shooter at Texas high school dead after injuring fellow student
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At least one person was shot at a high school in the west Texas town of Alpine on Thursday, leading to an active shooter situation with area schools on lockdown, according to local officials. A female shooter died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on Thursday, after shooting a student at a high school in the west Texas town of Alpine.
It was unclear how many shooters there were, although initial news reports suggested at least two. Brewster County sheriff Ronny Dodson, who spoke to ABC news, said another person, believed to be a shooter, had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The incident caused the lockdown of the school, said Brewster County sheriff Ronny Dodson.
According to the sheriff’s office, the shooting occurred at Alpine high school, which was subsequently put on lockdown. Students reported hearing about two or three shots, local station KWES reported. Dodson said a female student at Alpine high school appeared to turn a gun on herself after shooting a student who survived. It was not immediately known if the survivor, who was being treated at the Big Bend regional medical center, was a man or a woman.
Elizabeth Carter, a lieutenant at the Texas department of public safety, said someone brought a gun onto the Alpine High School campus on Thursday morning. Initial reports suggested there may have been two shooters, but Dodson said he believed it had just been one. A responding federal officer was shot in a separate incident, an apparent accidental discharge outside the school, Dodson said.
Ruth Hucke, a spokeswoman for Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine, said hospital personnel were tending to three “victims”. An initial sheriff’s department inquiry found that a total of five gunshots had been fired at the school.
Hucke declined to say how the victims were injured or further identify them. When asked if the victims had been shot, Hucke said she could not “say anything further”. Alpine high school has 280 students; the town of Alpine, 220 miles south-east of El Paso, has about 6,000 residents.
Earlier, police dispatcher Scarlet Eldred had no immediate information on whether anyone was hurt in the incident, which happened shortly before 9am. Eldred said police were seeking an “active shooter”. Dodson said police were also investigating a bomb threat at nearby Sul Ross State University and said he had called in the FBI to aid in that search.
Other than that the person was male, she did not immediately provide additional information. According to figures from the pro-gun-reform group Everytown for Gun Safety, the Alpine shooting was the 33rd incident in 2016 in which a gun has been fired on school or college premises across the US.
The Alpine independent school district website says the town of about 5,900 residents has three schools elementary, middle and a high school. Alpine is 220 miles south-east of El Paso.