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A Texas high school student unleashed a hail of bullets inside one of his classes early Friday morning, gunning down up to nine people, police said.
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, was identified as the person in custody in connection to the shooting at Santa Fe High School, the Associated Press reported.
Explosive devices were found at the school, authorities said.
Students were evacuated from Santa Fe High School in Texas following a shooting that killed eight to 10 people.
The suspected shooter was taken into police custody and a second suspect has been detained. The suspect in custody and the suspect detained for further questioning were both students.
The chilling audio of police dispatch in the moments that the #SantaFe High shooting was unfolding: from KTRK/Broadcastify pic.twitter.com/nUmEIPWfIk
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Police officers responded to Santa Fe High School around 8 a.m. CDT after reports that a shooter opened fire inside.
The Santa Fe Police Department confirmed explosive devices were found at the campus of the high school and the “surrounding areas adjacent to the school.” The school has been evacuated and the campus was cleared, the Santa Fe Police Department said.
A school resource officer was shot and injured and another officer was also injured in the incident, CBS News reported.
The chief nursing officer at the University of Texas Medical Branch told reporters the center received two adult patients and one person under 18 years old.
Galveston County Sheriff’s Maj. Douglas Hudson said units responded to reports of shots fired. Witnesses say a gunman opened fire inside an art class during first period. A student in the class told KTRK she witnessed at least one girl being shot.
Students console each other following a school shooting at Santa Fe High School. (AP)
“We thought it was a fire drill at first but really, the teacher said, ‘Start running,'” the student told the news station.
Two seniors at the school told KHOU 11 their friend pulled the fire alarm after spotting the shooter and urged other students to run. They also said they saw an injured female student.
“Now I am worried about everyone else,” one student commented. “ I don’t even want to go to graduation now.”
The student said she did not get a good look at the shooter because she was running away. She said students escaped through a door at the back of the classroom.
Authorities have not yet confirmed these accounts.
A 17-year-old student told Fox…