A 14-year-old boy is in custody after a Friday morning shooting at Highland High School in Palmdale that left one student wounded, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said.
The boy managed to get a rifle, an SKS, onto school campus and into a school bathroom from where he then started shooting, as many as 10 rounds, said Sheriff Jim McDonnell during a news conference Friday afternoon.
The victim, a 15-year-old boy, was shot in the arm and is in stable condition at a local hospital, according to Capt. Darren Harris.
A parent told KNX that his wife was dropping their daughter off at the school when the wounded student ran up to her car, shouting “He shot me! He shot me! I don’t know why he shot me!” The woman told the boy to get into her car and she drove him to a nearby hospital, the parent said, adding that his wife was interviewed by sheriff’s deputies and was told the “little boy is going to be fine,” but he “didn’t know who shot him.”
The wounded boy underwent surgery Friday afternoon and is expected to make a full recovery, according to a trauma center representative.
“At this time we are investigating the motive,” Harris said Friday morning from the parking lot of the Antelope Valley Mall, where authorities set up a command post to give information on the school shooting. A few hundred yards away, frantic parents came to pick up students after school officials evacuated a portion of the school in the 39000 block of 25th Street West.
Deputies responded to the high school around 7 a.m. after receiving calls of someone with a gun on campus.
According to McDonnell, the first call came in at 7:03 a.m. and officers were dispatched by 7:05 a.m. with nearly 100 calls reporting the incident.
McDonnell said that school faculty provided video of the suspect arriving at the school and leaving the school. Neighbors around the high school also provided investigators with their own home surveillance footage to assist with the investigation, he said.
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