By Rich McKay and Andrew Hay
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Law enforcement officers in Georgia responded on Wednesday to a shooting at a high school and there appear to be victims, authorities said.
Live aerial TV images showed several ambulances outside of Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia.
CNN said it witnessed a patient being loaded into a medical helicopter that had landed at the school.
“At approximately 10:23 a.m., officers from multiple law enforcement agencies and Fire/EMS personnel were dispatched to the high school in reference to a reported active shooting,” the Barrow County Sheriff’s office said in a statement.
“This is an ongoing situation,” the statement added.
A Barrow County Schools spokesperson said the school has been “secured by law enforcement and students are being released.” No other information was available.
(Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta, Andrew Hay in Taos, New Mexico, and Brad Brooks in Colorado; editing by Jonathan Oatis)