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Shots fired at Fern Creek High School in Louisville, Kentucky

Posted at 2:57 PM, Sep 30, 2014
and last updated 2014-09-30 16:58:40-04

The suspect in a shooting at a Kentucky high school that left one student injured is in custody, a spokeswoman said.

The shooting took place Tuesday afternoon just inside Fern Creek High School in Louisville.

One student was transported to a local hospital with an injury that was not life-threatening, said Jody Duncan, a spokeswoman for EMA-MetroSafe.

Before the suspect was located and taken into custody, she described him as male, “about 6-foot-5, wearing a gray hoodie, black pants with a gray stripe and about 15 or 16 years old.”

“We’re not sure if he is a student at Fern Creek High School, but we do know that he’s a younger individual,” Duncan said.

The shooting prompted a lockdown at the high school and at an area elementary school. School officials were in the process of connecting students with their parents, the spokeswoman said.