SEATTLE — A pupil was changeable and injured wrong Ingraham High School successful North Seattle and different pupil is successful custody.
Police are continuing to analyse arsenic parents are being reunited with students.
Police said they received reports of shots fired astatine the schoolhouse astatine 1819 North 135th Street astatine 9:55 a.m. connected Tuesday. The schoolhouse went into lockdown to support students.
Officers entered the schoolhouse and recovered 1 unfortunate with a gunshot wound. That idiosyncratic was taken to a infirmary with life-threatening injuries.
Seattle Public Schools adjunct superintendent of nationalist affairs Beverly Redmond said the unfortunate was a student.
“We bash not judge this was a random enactment of violence,” Redmond said successful a connection released precocious this morning.
Ingraham HS shooting A pupil was changeable and injured wrong Ingraham High School successful North Seattle connected Nov. 8, 2022. (KIRO 7 News)
Officers searched the country for a suspect. During a quality league astatine astir 11:05 a.m., Seattle Police Chief Adrien Diaz announced that a pupil had been arrested.
Witnesses told KIRO 7 that a antheral fishy was arrested astatine a adjacent autobus halt connected Aurora Avenue North adjacent 145th. A twelve officers equipped with semi-automatic rifles swarmed the country and arrested the suspect, who did not resist, according to witnesses. Seattle constabulary person not confirmed the determination of the arrest.
The process to reunite students with their parents started astatine noon, according to SPS. Get reunification updates here.
Police said students volition beryllium released 1 schoolroom astatine a clip to the auditorium, wherever families tin motion them out. If a pupil is 18, they volition beryllium allowed to permission arsenic agelong arsenic they cheque out.
All after-school activities connected Tuesday are canceled and classes are canceled connected Wednesday.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and Chief Diaz volition beryllium holding a quality league with updates astatine 2 p.m. We volition supply much accusation arsenic it becomes available.
IHS FAMILIES: Reunification volition commencement successful appx 10 minutes. Students volition beryllium released 1 schoolroom astatine a clip to the auditorium, wherever families tin motion them out. If a pupil is 18, they volition beryllium allowed to permission arsenic agelong arsenic they cheque out. Transportation program details to come.
— Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) November 8, 2022There was gunfire reported astatine Ingraham High School this morning. One pupil is believed to person been shot.
The field is presently connected lockdown. Seattle Police are connected the country and moving with the district’s Safety and Security team. SPD is searching the country for the suspect. pic.twitter.com/8IarrjevxP
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