SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A shotgun-wielding student took an administrator hostage at a high school Wednesday, and both were wounded after officers confronted the youth, officials said.
Neither injury was life-threatening, officials said.
The student came onto the Rio Cazadero High School campus around 9 a.m. and took the administrator hostage, said Sgt. Lou Fatur of the Sacramento sheriff’s department.
Two Sacramento police officers and a sheriff’s deputy confronted the student, and in the struggle, both the student and the administrator were shot, he said. The youth was wounded by an officer; authorities were not sure whether the administrator was wounded by the student’s gun or an officer’s gun.
The administrator’s wounds “were not life-threatening because he was shot in the leg,” said Audrey Lee, Sacramento police spokeswoman.
Rio Cazadero High School is an alternative high school with about 280 students, said Samantha Bauer, a spokeswoman for the Elk Grove Unified School District. The school is for students who are falling behind in their credits. The Elk Grove district includes part of the city of Sacramento.
Students were taken to a neighboring high school so their parents could pick them up there, Bauer said.
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