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Pittsburgh School Shooting Leaves 3 Wounded

Michelle Toh |
November 13, 2013 | 4:26 p.m. PST

Executive Producer

The shooting took place after school was let out, according to police. (Creative Commons)
The shooting took place after school was let out, according to police. (Creative Commons)
A shooting outside a high school in Pittsburgh Wednesday afternoon left three students wounded and led to an onslaught of police and SWAT team officers.

The shooting outside Brashear High School in Beechview occurred just after class was let out around 3 p.m., ABC reported. 

The victims, two juniors and one freshman, were all male. They had been walking to a vehicle they had taken to school that day when shots were fired. 

One student was shot in the leg and foot; the second in the neck and shoulder; the third grazed in the head. After being taken to area hospitals, none of their injuries are considered to be life-threatening, Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard said, although one of the boys is in surgery.

She said the gunman was seen running into the woods. It is not yet clear whether there were additional shooters. 

Police took six people, five men and a woman, into custody for questioning. Richard that the victims were not cooperating with police. 

"We do have some leads on the actor or actors," the spokeswoman said.

The school, placed on lockdown after initial reports of the shooting, has since been declared to be secure. "We have a handle on what appears to be an isolated, a targeted incident," Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said. 

Police said students running back toward the school created confusion about where the shooting had occurred, resulting in more officers being dispatched than needed.

Richard said the three boys who were shot knew the shooter or shooters. She said police believed that the incident may have been related to a possibly drug-related fight that occurred near the school on Oct. 18, which had resulted in the school being locked down for a week.

See raw footage of police on the scene here.

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