Two students and a custodian were shot and wounded in a shooting at a middle school in eastern Idaho on Thursday.
The incident happened at about 9:15 a.m. at Rigby Middle School, The Associated Press reports. That's when shots were heard, and a students and faculty were evacuated from the building to a nearby high school.
A sixth-grade girl pulled a handgun from her backpack and opened fire inside and outside the school, injuring two students and an employee before she was disarmed. A teacher was able to get the gun off of the girl and detain her until multiple law enforcement agencies reached the scene.
The injured students were taken to the hospital in fair condition with wounds to their extremities and are expected to stay overnight. One of the students might need surgery, and the other was wounded in two limbs.
The custodian also was wounded in an extremity, and the bullet exited cleanly. The adult victim was treated at the hospital and released.
Authorities are trying to determine a motive for the shooting and where she obtained the handgun. The incident happened in Rigby, a small city nearly 100 miles southwest of Yellowstone National Park, and the shooter was from neighboring Idaho Falls.
No other details have been released concerning the girl and the incident. Initial reports had said that a male student was in custody immediately following the shooting.
"What we know so far is the shooter has been apprehended," Jefferson School District Superintendent Chad Martin said. "There is no further threat to the students.”
The apparent shooting is the second to happen at a school in the state's history, according to the AP. Previously, a student was injured by ricocheting debris from a shotgun shell when a classmate opened fire several times at a Notus high school in 1999.
