Police detain suspect in shooting at California high school, one injured

Deputy Charles Moore says there is no confirmation of an actual person with a gun or any shooting.

One victim was shot in the arm at a California high school on Friday morning and a suspect was detained, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

Police were responding to a report of a man with a gun at a high school in the city of Palmdale. (AFP File/Representative image)

The suspect, described as a “male Hispanic juvenile” by the department on Twitter, was not identified. Police also said they had recovered one firearm from the scene at Highland High School in Palmdale, California, about 97 km north of Los Angeles.

It was not clear whether the suspect or the victim, who was in stable condition at a hospital, were students at the school.

In a statement, the school district’s superintendent, Raul Maldonado, said, “It has been confirmed that earlier this morning, there was an active shooter on the Highland High School campus. Apparently, the person was already apprehended.”

The department received multiple reports of an armed man around 7 a.m. at the school.

Sheriff’s deputies also headed to a second school, Manzanita Elementary School, a few miles away after receiving reports around 7:30am that people thought they heard gunfire, Boese said.

The department said on Twitter that deputies searched the elementary school and had found no evidence of a crime as of around 8:30am.

Palmdale, a city of about 160,000 people, boasts that it is the “aerospace capital of the United States.” It is home to a US Air Force aircraft manufacturing plant that includes production facilities operated by Boeing Co, Lockheed Martin Corp and Northrop Grumman Corp.