Local media report fatalities at Texas school

<p>Houston-area media citing unnamed law enforcement officials are reporting that there are fatalities following a shooting at a high school.</p>

News 12 Staff

May 18, 2018, 3:32 PM

Updated 2,179 days ago

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SANTA FE, Texas (AP) - Houston-area media citing unnamed law enforcement officials are reporting that there are fatalities following a shooting at a high school.
  
Television station KHOU and the Houston Chronicle are citing unnamed federal, county and police officials following the shooting early Friday at Santa Fe High School, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Houston.
  
The Associated Press has not been able to confirm the reports.
  
The school district has confirmed an unspecified number of injuries but is not immediately releasing further details. Assistant Principal Cris Richardson says a suspect "has been arrested and secured."
  
Assistant Principal Cris Richardson says the suspect in the shooting Friday at Santa Fe High School "has been arrested and secured."
  
  
School officials say law enforcement officers are working to secure the building "and initiate all emergency management protocols to release and move students to another location."
  
Students are being transported to another location to reunite with their parents.
  
One student told Houston television station KTRK that a gunman came into her first-period class and started shooting. The student says she saw one girl with a bloody leg as the class evacuated.
  


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