Students are escorted from Berrendo Middle School following a shooting.<\/p>\n
A student opened fire in a school in the southeastern New Mexico City of Roswell on Tuesday injuring several students, authorities said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The shooting happened in the Berrendo Middle School\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s gym, where the gunman shot a 14-year-old boy twice in the face and a 13-year-old girl in the arm. The victims were rushed to a local hospital both in critical conditions.<\/p>\n Hospital spokesman Eric Finley said the information he obtained from the nurses treating the boy shows that he was the target of the shooter.<\/p>\n Odiee Carranza, an eighth grader, who witnessed the shooting, said the gunman was a boy who she thought was being bullied.<\/p>\n Carranza said a teacher grabbed the shooter after he fired a shot into the sky and dropped the gun,<\/p>\n The shooter was arrested by police and was taken in custody, a spokeswoman from the Roswell Police Department said.<\/p>\n Following the incident, the students were all taken to a nearby mall by bus so that parents could pick them up.<\/p>\n According to an investigation by the Daily Beast, one school shooting has taken place in America every two weeks on average over the past year.<\/p>\n A new poll found that an estimated 40 percent of households in the United States have at least one gun owner.<\/p>\n The Economist\/YouGov poll found that about 24 percent of American adults surveyed said they personally own a gun and 15 percent said they do not personally own one but someone in their home does.<\/p>\n AT\/HJ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n