One Person Injured in California High School Shooting

By Staff

One person has reportedly been injured in a shooting ar Ridgeway Hish School in Santa Clara, California, police said, as quoted by the Daily Mail.

The school, some 80 kilometers north of San Fransisco, was locked down after reports of the active shooting.

“We had a shooting on the campus of Ridgway High School this morning. Right now we have an outstanding suspect. We have one victim. It doesn’t appear to be an active shooter situation at this time”, Santa Rosa police Sgt. Summer Gloeckner said.

The Santa Rosa Police sergeant said that the male victim had been shot at least once, reportedly in the abdomen. The extent of his injuries is not immediately clear.

The incident came a day after the US Justice Department said in a press release that schools throughout the United States would receive $85.3 million from the US federal government in grants to fight school shootings and other violent incidents.