Texas school shootings: Shooter dead, 2 injured, sheriff says - CNN.com
(CNN)One person was shot and wounded at western Texas' Alpine High School on Thursday morning before the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot, Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson said.
A police officer also was accidentally shot by a marshal as officers responded to the first shooting, Dodson said. The conditions of the two injured people were not immediately released.
Few other details were released about the shootings at the school in Alpine, a community of about 6,500 people roughly 200 miles southeast of El Paso.
There was blood on the floor'
A junior at the school told CNN that students had just started the day's second period when a teacher outside her class began yelling, "Get in the classroom!"
"My teacher ... yelled to everyone to get into the closet," said the junior, whom CNN is not naming because she is a minor.
"We heard someone yelling and running down the hall. We all started crying."
After a time, a law enforcement officer banged on the classroom door and ushered the students out, she said.
"There was blood on the floor in the cafeteria that I saw when we went past it on our way out of the school," the student said. "One of the officers told us to keep our hands up and run out of the building, so I only saw the blood quickly."
"It was so scary and very intense. I've never been so scared in my life."