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Police respond to shooting at Texas high school Police respond to reports of active shooter at Texas school
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Police are responding to reports of an active shooter at a Texas school. Police in West Texas say they are hunting an active shooter who opened fire at a high school.
Initial accounts say one person has been injured at the incident in Brewster county.Initial accounts say one person has been injured at the incident in Brewster county.
The Brewster sheriff's office said all schools in the area had been placed on lockdown and that it believed two suspects were involved. Police dispatcher Scarlet Eldred told the Associated Press that she had no further information on whether anyone was hurt in the incident shortly before 9 am other than that officers were pursuing an "active shooter".
The school, in the western desert region of Texas, has just under 1000 students, according to its website. The Brewster sheriff's office also told The New York Daily News that all schools in the area had been placed on lockdown and that two suspects may have been involved.
The school, in the western desert region of Texas about 200 miles wast of El Paso, has about 280 pupils.
The shooting comes two weeks after pupils returned after the summer vacation.
Elizabeth Carter, a lieutenant at the Texas Department of Public Safety, confirmed that someone brought a gun onto the Alpine High School campus on Thursday morning. 
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