Colorado: Shots were fired on Tuesday at a Denver area school, the local sheriff said, and two people were believed hurt.
The shooting took place at a science and technology school in the community of Highlands Ranch, 25 miles (40 km) south of Denver, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office on Twitter.
“At 1:53 pm responded to STEM school off Ridgeline Blvd in HR on call of shots fired in school, first update, 2 injured, deputies in the process of identifying and locating shooter(s). Still active and unstable scene,” the sheriff’s office said in a Tweet.
A man who called into local KOA radio told the station that his son was in a classroom when two people armed with guns burst in and opened fire, wounding two students. The father said that students were able to disarm the shooters.
The sheriff’s department directed parents to go to a nearby recreation centre to pick up their children and said they would give an update at an upcoming news conference.
The Denver Post reported that all schools in the area where placed on lockdown while police and fire crews responded to the scene.
