OAKLAND (California, US), Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A 12-year-old boy was held on Monday on suspicion of shooting and wounding a student at a school in east Oakland, authorities said.
Reports of a shooting sent officers to Madison Park Academy in the Sobrante Park neighbourhood at about 1.30pm, police said.
They found a 13-year-old boy with a gunshot wound, and another boy ran away after the shooting but was quickly taken into custody, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said at a press conference.
The wounded student was hospitalised in stable condition.
“It saddens me to even think that a kid would bring a gun to school,” Armstrong said. “No parent wants to send their kids to school in the day and then be called saying your kid’s been shot. It’s the worst thing that you can hear.”
There were no other victims immediately reported.
Armstrong said both boys were students at the school, which has about 750 students in grades six to 12.
A gun used in the shooting has been recovered by authorities.
The campus was evacuated and traffic backed up in the area as parents tried to pick up their children. Footage from the SkyFOX chopper showed police and Alameda County sheriff’s deputies and students crowded together outside the school. — NNN-AGENCIES
