SC school shooting: Student shoots peer at Tanglewood Middle School, police say

The shooter, a minor, was taken into custody close to Tanglewood Center Faculty not lengthy after the capturing, Greenville County Sheriff’s Lt. Ryan Flood mentioned in an announcement. An preliminary assertion issued by police indicated he was a scholar on the college.

There are not any different suspects, mentioned Flood.

A police officer on the college known as within the capturing and requested emergency backup round 12:30 p.m. and greater than 100 deputies rushed to the varsity, Flood mentioned. Additional particulars weren’t instantly offered.

The situation of the scholar who was shot will not be recognized, Greenville County Faculties spokesman Tim Waller mentioned in an announcement.

College students on the college have been being taken to close by Brookwood Church the place mother and father can decide them up, Waller mentioned.

Helicopter footage from WYFF-TV confirmed dozens of officers strolling round exterior the varsity with greater than two dozens buses lined up. Some college students have been slowly boarding the buses.

Deputies mentioned they’d no different data to launch.