One Student Injured In Kentucky School Shooting

One student was injured in a shooting at Fern Creek High School in Louisville, Kentucky on Tuesday afternoon. Some media reports indicate that the suspect in the shooting was in police custody, while others indicated authorities were still searching for the suspect on Tuesday afternoon. 

The suspect was still at large at 3 p.m. as police reportedly searched wooded areas surrounding the school. One student is said to be sustaining non-life threatening injuries as a result of the shooting that took place around 1 p.m. Tuesday before the suspect fled the scene. Authorities have not said whether the shooter was a student, nor have they said whether the victim was a target or randomly selected.

Parents are being asked to pick up their children from a nearby park while police officers wearing vests and helmets can be seen scouring the area around the school for the shooter.

"This is every parent's nightmare," Jefferson County school board member Chris Brady told The Courier-Journal. "This is one of these days you wish would never come."

The school reportedly went into lockdown mode shortly after 1 p.m. after a shooter was announced on campus. "Shortly after the staff became aware of fact that there may be a weapon on the campus, the school went into level 5 lockdown. The doors were locked, the students went for cover inside the building and stayed there until the clear was given for them to evacuate and go to the Fern Creek Park," said Jefferson County Public Schools spokesman Ben Jackey.

Local media outlets are reporting that if parents have not heard from police, their child is not injured and may be waiting to be picked up at Fern Creek Park. The student who was injured in the shooting is being treated at University Hospital.