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Several people were injured in a shooting Wednesday at Timberview High School in Arlington, Texas. A Dallas-area school district said law enforcement was responding to reports of an “active shooter situation” at a high school.
The Mansfield Independent School District said in a news release that Timberview High School was on lockdown Wednesday morning. The school is in Arlington, which is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.
A spokeswoman for the Arlington Police Department said officers responded to a shooting at the school, but she could not confirm whether anyone was injured. The police department said on Twitter that officers were “duly searching” and working closely with other law enforcement agencies.
Police said a reunification center had been set up for the students and their families. The district said students and staff were locked up in classrooms or offices.
Timberview serves approximately 1,900 students from classes IX to XII. The huge complex opened in 2004.
Live TV footage showed queues of ambulances and fire brigade vehicles parked outside the school, but no one could be seen treating the injured.
The report comes just days after a shooting at a charter school in Houston in which an administrator was injured. Texas’ deadliest school shooting occurred in May of 2018 when a then 17-year-old armed with a shotgun and pistol opened fire at Santa Fe High School near Houston, killing 10 people, most of them students.
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