"Ultimately, there’s been a total of five that were injured, so we had a 15-year-old male that suffered a gunshot wound to the head that we placed in critical yet stable condition," Scott said on Thursday. "We also had a 15-year-old female that suffered a gunshot wound to the wrist and we’re placing in fair condition."
#News#fb A 12-Year-Old Girl Has Been Arrested After Shooting 4 Kids At An LA Middle School, Police Say https://t.co/YUQjI3LFpRpic.twitter.com/tt6gPPUkW0
— Mark Heintz (@heintz_mark) 1 февраля 2018 г.
The other three individuals suffered abrasions, Scott told reporters. The injured, a boy and a girl aged 15, were taken to hospital. The boy was reportedly in a critical but stable condition after he was hit in the head by a bullet.
The scene at Sal Castro Middle School on campus Belmont High near DTLA. LAPD confirms two people shot by student inside of a classroom. Shooter in custody, a girl believed to be a student. Victims are 15, boy and girl. Boy shot in the head. @NBCLApic.twitter.com/wgrJEQ3EjG
— Jonathan Gonzalez (@JonathanNBCLA) 1 февраля 2018 г.
The investigation into the shooting, which occurred Thursday morning at Sal Castro Middle School, is ongoing, authorities said. However, the shooting at a Los Angeles school is believed to be an accident, a police official told a local broadcaster. A 12-year-old girl was detained at Sal Castro Middle School on charges of negligent discharge of a firearm on school grounds, the official told ABC Eyewitness News.
Los Angeles incident became a second US school shooting in less than two weeks.
On January 23, two students were killed in a school shooting in the US state of Kentucky by a 15-year-old classmate.