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Two students were hospitalized with gunshot wounds in Los Angeles after what police describe as 

 Thursday morning at Salvador Castro Middle School. A 12-year-old girl has been arrested.


Late Thursday, The Associated Press reported:


Both students who were shot are 15 years old — a boy who is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head and a girl who was shot in the wrist and is in fair condition. Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department 

three other people, ranging in age from 11 to 30, "suffered abrasions" during the attack.



The 15-year-old boy is expected to fully recover. Trauma surgeon Aaron Strumwasser said the victim was lucky the bullet that struck him in the temple did not cause life-threatening damage. "I think he will do fine," said Strumwasser at the LA County-USC Medical Center, as quoted by the 

.

"As a parent, this is everyone's worst-case nightmare — a worst-case scenario and a nightmare for all of us," Robert Arcos, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department's Operations-Central Bureau, 

He said at the time it was too early know how the girl obtained the weapon.

 "students at middle and high schools in Los Angeles are subject to daily random searches for weapons using metal-detector wands, but officials have not said whether any such screenings occurred at the school Thursday."
The 

 notes Castro Middle School sits just across the street from Belmont High School, in a building that "used to be part of Belmont High when the high school had a higher enrollment."


"I'm just scared for all the kids," Gloria Echeverria, mother of a 13-year-old student, told the AP while standing outside the police tape ringing the campus. "School is supposed to be a safe place for them, and apparently it's not."

Crime, Law and Justice

Colin Dwyer

Author

A 12-year-old girl is in custody. Police say both wounded victims are 15 years old, and one is in critical condition. Three more people have minor injuries.

2 students shot in attack at Los Angeles middle school

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