A student at West Orange High School was reportedly shot at the soccer practice field near the bus loop during an argument with another student.
An American student was shot at West Orange High School in Winter Garden, Florida, the school�™s spokesperson said.
The student was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center. He was alert en route to hospital Wednesday afternoon, Orange County Public Schools spokeswoman Kathy Marsh said, according to WESH.
A 2 p.m. Facebook post by Douglas Szcinski, the principal at WOHS, said the school was on lockdown and officials were “following all safety procedures and precautions,” Orlando Sentinel reported.
The boy was shot in an argument with another student near the school�™s soccer field.
“I turned around, and there was a fight, and he just pulls a gun out and shoots him,” a student said.
The shooting suspect was taken into custody around 3:40 p.m. by deputies of the Orange County Sheriff.
Freshman Austin Nornhold, 16, was near the scene when the fight broke out. He said the attacker, who other students said had been suspended from school, pulled a gun out of his pocket.
“I hear about this happening it at other schools, but I expected it to happen at a place with a lot worse reputation than here,” Austin said.
Since the deadly shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14 which left 20 first-grade school children and six staff members dead, the US media have reported nearly 10,500 gun deaths in the country, according to an interactive project between slate.com and the anonymous creator of the Twitter feed @GunDeaths.
According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, 32 people are murdered with guns in the US every day and 140 Americans are treated for gun-related injuries in an emergency room.
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Source: Press TV