At Lamar HS, Shane Buechelle and Isaiah Neyor's school. Happened very early and one student died. I know there are a few of us on here, but only @LAXHORN and @Hatt come to mind at the moment.
One student died Monday after being shot outside of Lamar High School, according to Arlington Police Chief Al Jones. A second student was hospitalized and a gunman, another student, was in taken custody soon after police arrived on scene.
The shooting happened on campus outside a school building about 6:55 a.m., Arlington police spokesman Tim Ciesco said. School typically starts at 7:35 a.m., and not all students were on campus at the time of the shooting.
The suspected shooter is not believed to have entered any school building. Police also said they believe only two shots were fired.
Jesse Minton, an Arlington police spokesman, said Monday morning one male student was shot and taken to the hospital in critical condition. The student later died, police chief Jones said during a 2 p.m. news conference.
The second student, a female victim, was taken to the hospital by her parents, who were still nearby when the shooting took place, he said.
Police are not sure if she was struck by a bullet or injured by something else, like shrapnel, Minton said, but her injury is believed to be non-life-threatening.
Minton said both students and the suspect are under the age of 17 and police do not yet know if the student who was shot was targeted by the gunman.
“Parents, students and community members are urged to stay away from the campus while Arlington Police officers conduct their investigation,” Arlington ISD spokeswoman Anita J. Foster said in an email.
The school was placed on a lockdown that was lifted after police completed a search of the school, according to a tweet from the department around 10:40 a.m.
At 11:15 a.m., at least 10 school buses of students arrived at the Arlington ISD Athletics Center in the 1000 block of east Division Street — the designated reunification center for parents.
The school was placed on a lockdown that was lifted after police completed a search of the school, according to a tweet from the department around 10:40 a.m.
At 11:15 a.m., at least 10 school buses of students arrived at the Arlington ISD Athletics Center in the 1000 block of east Division Street — the designated reunification center for parents.
The person was being covered by her principal and a police officer, she said, so she couldn’t see them, but thought maybe a student had passed out.
”But then people started saying someone was shot and then when we were all directed into classrooms, that’s when it started to feel real,” she said.
Escamilla said students were held in their classrooms for more than two hours before they were ushered onto school buses and taken to the athletics center.
In talking to other students on the ride over, Escamilla said the general consensus is that they “never thought this would happen to us.”
”It was shocking,” she said. “I was so scared, especially because we didn’t know for a while if he was still on the loose. It was all so unexpected.”
Charmeka Smith, whose 16-year-old son attends Lamar High School, said she was first notified of the lockdown in an alert from the school at 7:19 a.m.
”It was a little overwhelming at first — the not knowing,” Smith said.
Smith said she felt better after she was able to talk to her son over the phone, but noted he was “shaken up.”
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One student died Monday after being shot outside of Lamar High School, according to Arlington Police Chief Al Jones. A second student was hospitalized and a gunman, another student, was in taken custody soon after police arrived on scene.
The shooting happened on campus outside a school building about 6:55 a.m., Arlington police spokesman Tim Ciesco said. School typically starts at 7:35 a.m., and not all students were on campus at the time of the shooting.
The suspected shooter is not believed to have entered any school building. Police also said they believe only two shots were fired.
Jesse Minton, an Arlington police spokesman, said Monday morning one male student was shot and taken to the hospital in critical condition. The student later died, police chief Jones said during a 2 p.m. news conference.
The second student, a female victim, was taken to the hospital by her parents, who were still nearby when the shooting took place, he said.
Police are not sure if she was struck by a bullet or injured by something else, like shrapnel, Minton said, but her injury is believed to be non-life-threatening.
Minton said both students and the suspect are under the age of 17 and police do not yet know if the student who was shot was targeted by the gunman.
“Parents, students and community members are urged to stay away from the campus while Arlington Police officers conduct their investigation,” Arlington ISD spokeswoman Anita J. Foster said in an email.
The school was placed on a lockdown that was lifted after police completed a search of the school, according to a tweet from the department around 10:40 a.m.
At 11:15 a.m., at least 10 school buses of students arrived at the Arlington ISD Athletics Center in the 1000 block of east Division Street — the designated reunification center for parents.
The school was placed on a lockdown that was lifted after police completed a search of the school, according to a tweet from the department around 10:40 a.m.
At 11:15 a.m., at least 10 school buses of students arrived at the Arlington ISD Athletics Center in the 1000 block of east Division Street — the designated reunification center for parents.
The person was being covered by her principal and a police officer, she said, so she couldn’t see them, but thought maybe a student had passed out.
”But then people started saying someone was shot and then when we were all directed into classrooms, that’s when it started to feel real,” she said.
Escamilla said students were held in their classrooms for more than two hours before they were ushered onto school buses and taken to the athletics center.
In talking to other students on the ride over, Escamilla said the general consensus is that they “never thought this would happen to us.”
”It was shocking,” she said. “I was so scared, especially because we didn’t know for a while if he was still on the loose. It was all so unexpected.”
Charmeka Smith, whose 16-year-old son attends Lamar High School, said she was first notified of the lockdown in an alert from the school at 7:19 a.m.
”It was a little overwhelming at first — the not knowing,” Smith said.
Smith said she felt better after she was able to talk to her son over the phone, but noted he was “shaken up.”
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