Authorities say a suspect shot and wounded a school administrator and a school resource office at a suburban Kansas City high school. The student was also shot when the officer returned fire.
The male student at Olathe East High School was taken into custody, Olathe police Sgt. Joel Yeldell said. All three people are stable and are expected to survive. No other students were injured, he said. Police have not identified the suspect.
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. “We have an SRO it sounds like that did his job so that’s great news and the injuries are expected to be survivable.
“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.”
She said her husband was concerned their daughter would have a panic attack but she didn’t think that would happen because “the kids just expect this. They hear about it all the time.”Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were on the scene to help with the investigation.that Olathe East High School, which has an enrollment of 1,900, was put on lockdown after the shooting.
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