A shooting at a Maryland high school, Great Mills, on Tuesday morning is reportedly contained. St. Mary’s County Public Schools wrote on its website, “There has been a shooting at Great Mills High School.” They also said “the school is on lockdown and the event is contained.”
A spokesman for the FBI's Baltimore field office said its agents are on the scene of the incident. Some of the injuries were critical, sheriff's officials said. It's not clear how many people were injured at the school.
Initial reports of the shooting came after classes at Great Mills began at 8 a.m. ET. About 1,600 students attend the school. Great Mills High School is in St. Mary's County, 60 miles southeast of Washington, D.C.
This chilling tweet was issued by Great Mills H.S. student Mollie Davis.
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Jonathan Freese, a student at Great Mills, told CNN he was in lockdown in his math class. Police are going through classrooms to clear the school, and students will then be escorted out of the school, Freese said.
"I'm still a little shaken up," he said.
Parents are being asked to go to Leonardtown High School's auditorium to receive updates.
The incident comes ahead of a national march Saturday against gun violence following a mass shooting at Parkland, Florida, high school last month. Students at Great Mills High School participated in last week's National School Walkout that honored the 17 victims of the Parkland shooting. Emma Gonzalez, Parkland survivor and activist, tweeted:
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