Between eight and 10 people have been killed in a shooting at a Texas high school, say police.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told reporters the majority of the dead at Santa Fe High School were students. A student is in custody after the attack at the school.
The death toll makes this the deadliest school shooting since the one in February at Parkland, Florida.
The shooting follows another active shooting on Wednesday at Dixon High School in central Illinois, where a school resource officer shot and wounded a former student who opened fire at the school.
Update!!! Ten people were killed and 10 others were wounded Friday morning by a teenager with a shotgun and a revolver at a high school in the southeastern Texas city of Santa Fe, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said.
Authorities have said two people have been detained in the shooting at Santa Fe High School. The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office
Photo of Dimitrios Pagourtzis from the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office.
He is in jail, accused of capital murder, the sheriff’s office said. Nine students and one teacher died, a law enforcement official told CNN.
The alleged shooter used a shotgun and a .38 revolver that were legally owned by his father, Abbott told reporters. Two school resource officers were on the campus and confronted the shooter “early on in the process,” Abbott said.