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Hawaii high school locked down after shooting Hawaii high school locked down after shooting
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Shots have been fired at a Hawaii high school causing injuries and prompting a lockdown, the authorities said. A police officer shot a 17-year-old runaway in the wrist at a Hawaii high school after the teen cut one officer with a knife and punched two others, authorities said.
Honolulu department of emergency services spokeswoman Shayne Enright said the shooting happened at Roosevelt high school in Honolulu. State Department of Education spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said the boy showed up on Tuesday morning at Roosevelt High School. Officials there recognized him as a runaway who was not registered for classes, and called police.
No additional details about the injuries or shooter were released. Police and education department officials did not immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press. Major Richard Robinson, commander of the Honolulu police department's criminal investigations division, said the boy lunged at officers who arrived at the school near downtown Honolulu and tried to take him into custody.
An official who answered the phone at Roosevelt said the public high school near downtown Honolulu was locked down. Robinson said the teen attacked one of the officers with a knife, leaving him with a slight cut on his torso. He also hit two other officers, but neither suffered serious injuries.
About a half-dozen parents, including Carolyn Richardson, gathered outside the school after word of the shooting spread. "This is really freaking me out," Richardson said. One of the officers then fired two shots, hitting the boy once in the wrist. The teen was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, Robinson said.
She said she learned about the incident at about 9am after her son, CarDarow, a sophomore, texted her CarDarow told her he heard shots had been fired at the school, but that he was unharmed. She then used her cellphone to video-chat with her son. "I told him, I gotta hear your voice," Richardson said. The shooting prompted a lockdown at Roosevelt, which has about 1,500 students.
Other parents outside the school also texted and talked on their phones to their children. Seventeen-year-old junior Kealii Akiona-Soares said he was in social studies class when he heard a shot at about 8:20am. A school bell sounded and students were kept in their classrooms. He said his class continued with a politics lessons, and everyone kept mostly calm.
The school, which has about 1,500 students, began letting out kids for the day around 10 am. A steady stream of students filed out of the campus, with many reunited with their parents. "I guess it happens a lot in mainland schools, so it's not surprising," Akiona-Soares said.
Several parents, including Carolyn Richardson, gathered outside after word of the shooting spread. "This is really freaking me out," Richardson told the AP.
Richardson said she learned about the shooting around 9am through a text from her son, CarDarow, a sophomore. CarDarow told her he heard shots had been fired at the school, but that he was unharmed. She then used her cellphone to video-chat with him. "I told him, I gotta hear your voice," Richardson said.
Other parents outside the school also texted and talked on their phones to their children while they were on lockdown inside the school.
School was let out for the day at about 10am., and a steady stream of students filed out of campus, with many reuniting with their parents.
Hawaii is one of 12 states that have not had a school shooting, or someone entering a campus with the intent to shoot, state education department officials said.
In 2011, a handgun that a 14-year-old student brought to Highlands Intermediate School in Pearl City went off, narrowly missing one student and leaving another with minor injuries.
"I'm really shocked it happened here in Hawaii of all places," said Angie Estrella as she was picking up her son, a freshman, and her daughter, a senior.