For Grant Union High School student Allison White, campus lockdowns are a normal occurrence.
Fights break out, prompting school staff to button up the school, she said, while talking Tuesday to a reporter at the campus.
But then about 20 minutes later, White and her peers heard the rapid whirs of a California Highway Patrol helicopter and rumors spread about someone getting shot on campus — an unusual sound. Law enforcement descended on campus after a teenage boy was shot with a non-life-threatening injury just before 9:50 a.m. by another student in the school’s parking lot.
“It was really stressful,” White, 17, said. “And I still keep feeling like I’m going to throw up, but I’m not. So, it’s just a lot.”
Sacramento officers and the school district’s police force detained the student suspect, 14, shortly after the incident off campus in the Del Paso Heights neighborhood.
“There’s no threat to the community,” Sgt. Carlos Martinez said in a briefing with reporters.
Parents rushed to the scene after hearing reports of a school shooting and sought answers about what happened.