At least one person is in critical condition and two others were taken to the hospital with injuries after a shooting occurred on the campus of Lone Star College near Houston, Texas.
"We did transport three patients from the scene," said Mark Smith, an official with Harris county Emergency Corps which dispatches ambulances in that area to Reuters.
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Smith stated he had been told that the shooting took place in the school library, which is close to the center of the campus.
Two suspects have been detained by police officials according to CNN affiliates KHOU and KTRK.
The campus was evacuated and closed for the day and police stopped traffic at every intersection on the campus. Some vehicles and pedestrians were allowed to pass but others were turned away according to Reuters.
At least four schools nearby were locked down according to Leticia Fehling, a spokeswoman for the district stated. Officials didn't allow school buses to enter the area as well.
The Lone Star College System is reportedly largest institution of higher education in the Houston area, according to its website. Student enrollment is approximately 90,000 and there are six colleges in the system.
"We do have, we believe, 3 people injured at this time," Sheriff's Office spokesman Amando Tello said, "We also have a person of interest that's being detained."
There have three other school shootings at schools or colleges in the last two weeks alone in the U.S. according to CBS.
On January 10, a student armed with a shotgun opened fire at a California high school, wounding a fellow student. Another student also received minor injures at Taft Union High School in Taft, California, which is 30 miles southwest of Bakersfield.
Just five days later a student armed with a pistol opened fire at Stevens Institute of business & Arts in downtown St. Louis, shooting a school employee and then turning the gun on himself. The same day, two people were killed and a third wounded during a shootout in the parking lot of a community college in eastern Kentucky. Authorities said that shooting was because of a domestic conflict.
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