The incident began at approximately 9:00 AM, when a female student opened fire on a classmate at Alpine High School in West Texas. The victim was rushed to the hospital, and their condition remains unknown. The shooter was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A police officer also suffered a gunshot injury, though Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson had revealed that he was not shot by the suspect. He was, instead, accidentally shot by a US marshall responding to the first shooting.
The condition of the injured officer is also unknown.
Authorities initially believed there were two shooters on the scene, though Dodson said they now believe the deceased to be the only suspect.
"It was scary, I didn’t really know what was going to happen," William Butler, a student at Alpine, told NBC News.
"The cops knocked on the door a little bit later and started to escort everyone out. When the police escorted us out of the classroom, there was a trail of blood going from the hallway I was going in towards the band hall."
The school, which has roughly 280 students, was placed on lockdown in the wake of the shooting. The incident comes only two weeks after the beginning of the new school year.
