Student Shot at Perry Hall High School on Firts Day of Class in Baltimore

Police say a 17-year-old male student has been shot and one suspect, a student, is in custody. A young man without a shirt was seen by Sky Eye Chopper 13 being escorted to a police cruiser in handcuffs. It's not clear if he is the accused shooter. Police say there is no active shooter on campus. The shooting reportedly happened in the school cafeteria and the victim was shot in the back. Students have also told Eyewitness News teachers tackled the suspect. "I saw the kid shooting then the teacher tackled him and the first row started running, then the second run, then everyone was running," said Gerald Roman, 11th grader. One student told WJZ's Hellgren it was his first day of public school and he saw the shooting. He says there was a lot of blood and saw the student shot in the back. There are estimates there were about 200 students in the cafeteria at the time of the shooting. Others told WJZ they heard a scuffle before the shooting. After the shooting, the school was put on lockdown for several hours. "It sounded like a fight against the locker with all the banging. I heard screaming and the teachers told everybody to stay calm... it was crazy," said Justin Spencer, tenth-grader. "When all the teachers started running to the classrooms and locking the doors, and then on the speaker we heard the teachers saying 'Lockdown. Lockdown. This is not a drill. We need everyone to stay in the classrooms.'"

• 2012-08-28T04:08:07+00:00
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