SANTA CLARITA: One person was killed and least four others injured in a shooting at a high school north of Los Angeles on Thursday , triggering a police hunt for a student who was found wounded and taken into custody.
The shooting at the school of 2,400 students was first reported at around 7.30am , followed by an"avalanche of 911 calls," Villanueva said. A tearful mother waiting beside a nearby church with other parents said she had dropped off her ninth-grader about a minute before the shooting started."All he's said is he was walking through the quad and somebody started shooting and he turned and he saw that it was real and ran into a classroom," she added.
Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were among those responding.News of the shooting broke during a debate on gun control legislation at the Senate in Washington.