SACRAMENTO, California — Police in Northern California arrested a 14-year-old boy Tuesday in the non-fatal shooting of another teenage boy in the parking lot of a Sacramento high school, authorities said.
Both are students at Grant Union High School in Sacramento, which was placed on lockdown for about two hours, Sacramento Police Officer Cody Capley said. Police say it was a targeted shooting and the motive is being investigated.
Capley said a 17-year-old boy was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm that was not life-threatening.
Sacramento police were alerted to the shooting by a ShotSpotter activation near the high school and officers worked with the Twin Rivers Unified Police Department and quickly arrested the 14-year-old near the school, said the Sacramento Police Department in a statement.
“We are shocked and saddened to learn of the events that led to a Twin Rivers student being shot at Grant High School,” the Twin Rivers Unified School District said in a post on the school’s website.
Psychologists and counselors will be available to support students and staff, Twin Rivers officials said in their post.
Sasha Vogt, who has a daughter in high school, told the Sacramento Bee that she rushed to the school after her daughter called her to tell her the school was closed.
“It’s trauma on top of trauma on top of trauma,” Vogt said.