At Least One Person Shot at West Texas School

A female student allegedly shot a classmate in a bathroom before fatally shooting herself, according to news reports.

Brewster County Sheriff’s Office Officials say they are still currently working several scenes and there is now a threat against the hospital in Alpine. The student who survived, “had run out into the street and some local people picked her up and took her to the hospital”, he said.

He says a law enforcement officer also suffered injuries that weren’t life threatening, but no details have been released.

Alpine is a small community located about 3 hours and 15 min from El Paso in the Big Bend Region.

Alpine High School, which has about 280 students, has been evacuated and the other schools are now on lockdown.

A third person, identified only as a female, was also shot in the restroom at the school by what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The survivor was treated at the Big Bend regional medical center.

“Well, that was shots from outside, a couple of federal agents had an accidental discharge, and that’s where that came from”, he said.

The shooting prompted a lockdown at Alpine’s three public schools. Authorities said the last time the campus was cleared it took authorities almost an entire day to secure the campus.

“Right now, we think we have some nut who in the midst of one of our most emotional times at our school started calling in these threats”, Dodson said.

Hucke said the hospital would provide a statement later Thursday.

Officers with bomb-sniffing dogs searched each university building for explosives, Dodson said. But students were being evacuated by 9:40 a.m. CT, the Alpine Avalanche newspaper said on its Facebook page.

The school and the rest of the district’s roughly 1,000 students, as well as staff, are on lockdown.

Police dispatcher Scarlet Eldred said an unspecified incident took place at the high school shortly before 9am (3am Friday NZT). A gun was found near the suspected shooter, he said.