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Central High School in Philadelphia is currently on Lockdown after a female student was shot.
According to reports, a 17-year-old girl was shot in the shoulder at 1600 Olney Ave, near Olney and Ogontz Avenues, and ran to Central High School around 8:15 a.m. local time before being rushed to Einstein Hospital.
Police say the gunman, who remains unidentified, is still at large. At this time, the juvenile victim is reportedly in stable condition.
As the shooting took place outside the school, Central High School and Widener Memorial School were placed on lockdown as a precaution. The lockdowns were lifted at 9:15 a.m.
That is all the information available at this time.
Central High School is a public high school in the Logan section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Central, the second-oldest continuously public high school in the United States, was founded in 1836 and is a four-year university preparatory magnet school. The school has a student population of about 2,400 students in grades 9 through 12.
The lockdown at Central High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is just the latest in a string of lockdowns, bomb threats, and shootings that have plagued the United States. Over the course of the past few years, shootings and lockdowns such as these have been a scourge upon the country and people have struggled with coming up with a solution. Lockdowns have become all too common as a means of protection when students and faculty are in danger and today is no different.
This incident follows similar incidents at Dodd Middle School in Connecticut, Windham Public Schools also in Connecticut, Pacoima Middle School in Los Angeles, Millennium Middle School in Florida, and US Grant High School in Oklahoma, which are just some of the places where events such as this have occurred.
