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Police respond to reports of active shooter at Texas school | |
(35 minutes later) | |
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. |
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 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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