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Two injured in Centennial, Colorado, school shooting | |
(35 minutes later) | |
Two students have been injured in a school shooting in Colorado, the Arapahoe County sheriff has said. | |
A student believed to be the gunman who brought a shotgun into the school has been found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, he said. | |
The sheriff said the gunman was looking for a specific teacher, who left the building. A student confronted the gunman and was shot. | |
It is unclear how the other student received a minor injury. | |
The school and others in the area were placed on lockdown but Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson indicated the threat had ended. | |
Upon the initial reports of a school shooting, heavily armed police trained in "active shooter" scenarios stormed the building, ordering students outside with their hands over their heads. | |
Inside, they found the dead suspected gunman and two other injured students, one of whom had suffered a minor wound, Mr Robinson said. | |
Police have not yet released the name of the suspect. | |
The school has more than 2,200 students and 70 classrooms. | |
The building is just eight miles (13km) east of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, the site of a mass school shooting in April 1999 which left 14 students dead. | |
The shooting occurred the day before the anniversary of the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 schoolchildren and six workers were killed at a primary school. |