The shooting occurred in the 'office area' at Olathe East High School, police said. A suspect is in custody, and there are no reports any students were injured.
OLATHE, Kansas -- A student shot and wounded an administrator and a school resource officer Friday at a suburban Kansas City high school, and the student also was wounded when the officer returned fire, authorities said.
Yeldell said the school resource officer notified dispatch over the radio just after 10:30 a.m. that he and an administrator had been shot and wounded by a student in the office. The resource officer said he returned fire, according to Yeldell, shooting and wounding the student."The good news is that no students were injured," Yeldell said at a news conference."We have an SRO it sounds like that did his job so that's great news and the injuries are expected to be survivable.
Overland Park Regional Medical Center said in a statement that one of the three people wounded is in critical condition, and a second is in critical but stable condition. The third person is in stable condition. The statement said that all of the families are requesting privacy. "The first thought was to panic and imagine that there is a shooter in the hallway and kids screaming but that wasn't what happened thank God," she said while waiting to be reunited with her at the staging site."That is just what we are used to seeing. There are so many shootings all the time that it is such a sad reality that this is what we have to live with."
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