A Shooting At A Virginia High School Has Left At Least 2 Students Wounded

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Police respond to the scene of a shooting at Heritage High School in Newport News, Va., on Sept. 20, 2021.





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People embrace outside Heritage High School as Newport News. Police were on scene responding to a shooting incident.





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People embrace outside Heritage High School as Newport News. Police were on scene responding to a shooting incident.


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George Parker, superintendent of Newport News Public Schools, said the high school does random searches for guns. Classes resumed on Sept. 8, so students were in their second full week of the school year.

«No superintendent, no teacher or principal would want to ever go through this situation, Parker said. «Just seeing the faces of our students and how afraid they were under these circumstances, and out staff, who are traumatized. … No one would want to through these circumstances.

Video from the scene showed tactical units arriving at the scene, parents on sidewalks talking on cellphones as crime scene tape stretched across portions of the school parking lot.

Drew said two other people were taken to the hospital after the shooting: one whose arm was injured as people ran from school and another because of asthma.

Police noted that reports of active shooters at other schools were false.