A Kentucky student was injured after a suspect open fired at a high school in Louisville on Tuesday, the Associate Press reported.
Louisville police did not immediately release many details surrounding the shooting at Fern Creek Traditional High School. The victim, believed to be a male student, was rushed to University Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The shooter fled the school but was arrested three hours after the afternoon shooting, Officer Phil Russell told the AP. Police have not yet released the suspect's name and it is not clear if the person is a student.
"It appears it is an isolated incident that happened just inside the school," Russell said. "Obviously a large crime scene, but it was isolated to just inside the building."
Fern Creek was placed into lockdown mode and students were ordered inside their classrooms, Ben Jackey, spokesman for Jefferson County Public Schools, told the AP. Law enforcement arrived and safely escorted the students outside to a nearby park.
"This is senseless. This is unacceptable," Jackey told the AP. "This cannot happen in our school. This is not the type of things students should be exposed to."
Witnesses said the scene inside the school was utter chaos when the shots were fired.
" 'Everybody just went running everywhere, shoving kids in classrooms and locking the doors,' " a 17-year-old senior at the school said according to his mother Tiata Rodgers.
The incident occurred just hours after another school shooting in North Carolina left one student injured and another taken into custody.
Albemarle High School was evacuated and closed after the Tuesday morning shooting in a courtyard outside.
Albemarle Police Chief William Halliburton said the gunman shot the male student in the leg before he reportedly surrendered to authorities.
