A sixth-grade Idaho Falls, Idaho, girl has been taken into custody after three people were injured in a shooting at a middle school in Rigby, Idaho.
The Idaho Statesman reports that two students and a school custodian sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting at Rigby Middle School.
Just after 9 a.m. Thursday, the suspect — a girl from Idaho Falls — retrieved a handgun from her backpack in a hallway at Rigby Middle and fired multiple rounds, police say. Two people were shot in the hallway, and a third person was shot outside the school..
A teacher eventually disarmed the student and held her until police took her into custody.
One student was shot once in an extremity and a second, who had injuries to both upper and lower extremities, was “potentially” shot twice, a spokesman at a local hospital said.
The injured custodian was treated at the hospital and released. the two students were in fair condition and being held overnight, Lemon said.
All of the uninjured students were evacuated from the middle school to Rigby High School for parent pickup and busing.
Rigby Middle School has more than 1,400 students in sixth through eighth grades.
