UPDATE: Student Killed, Suspect Arrested Following Shooting at Arlington Lamar High School

that"Jesse Minton, with the Arlington Police Department, said one of the injured students was a juvenile male who was critically injured and was taken to an area hospital by ground ambulance. The other injured student, Minton said, was a juvenile female who suffered injuries that were not life-threatening after either being grazed by a bullet or hit by flying debris."

The report also noted"there are two full-time Arlington police officers assigned to the campus as school resource officers and that they were able to immediately aid in the response." Details provided by Arlington police via Twitter at 9:48 a.m. state,"At around 6:55 this morning, APD responded to the Lamar HS campus after we received multiple reports of shots fired outside the school building."

The police also say that school was not in session at the time of the shooting, and they believe the shooter did not enter the building. The shooter was taken into custody by police"shortly after arriving on scene," said APD.at 10:41 a.m. that the school lockdown had been lifted. Students were then bused to the designated reunification center at Arlington ISD Athletic Center on Division Street, where parents and guardians began picking up students at noon.

Arlington ISD Superintendent Dr. Marcelo Cavazos said there will be no school tomorrow, and beginning on Wednesday, counselors will be made available to all Lamar students for as long as is necessary. , it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Dallas, and we'd like to keep it that way. With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism.

Sounds like gang violence to me. Many such cases.

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