Two teens were shot at Frederick High School Wednesday night.(Photo: WUSA9)
FREDERICK, Md. — Two teenagers
were shot at Frederick High School on Wednesday evening.
The shooting happened around 8:20 p.m. ET outside the school during a junior varsity basketball game.
2/4/15*Shooting*2020hrs/Double shooting at Frederick HS/2 teens shot with NLT injuries/aviation enroute/FCSO on scene/
— FCFDL3666 (@FcfdL3666)
February 5, 2015
Frederick police Capt. Richard Hetherington said the two students were flown to Shock Trauma in Baltimore with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.
Hetherington said the shooter or shooters are still at large.
Officers took about 200 people who were at the game into the school cafeteria, secured the building and questioned witnesses.
All other students and staff members are safe and accounted for, according to Frederick County Public Schools.
We are ready to release students to parents. We are escorting them in small groups to the West College Terrace bowling alley parking lot.
— FCPS-MD (@FCPSMaryland)
February 5, 2015
The school was locked town temporarily, and Frederick County Public Schools tweeted that officials were ready to release students to their parents at 10:17 p.m. Students were being escorted in small groups to a nearby parking lot.
The high school, about 40 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., has about 1,300 students.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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