A teenage girl opened fire in the cafeteria of a Catholic high school in central Pennsylvania today, wounding a classmate in the second US school shooting in less than a week, authorities said.
Police said gunfire rang out around noon EST (1700 GMT) at Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, about 120 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
An unidentified 13-year-old girl was wounded in the attack. She was treated at Williamsport Hospital and Medical Center and then transported to a trauma center 30 miles away in the town of Danville, hospital spokeswoman Tracy Witter said.
Meanwhile, the young suspect was quickly taken into custody. Police and school officials had no immediate word on a motive for the shooting, believed to be the first in a spate of similar incidents in US schools in which the suspected shooter was female.
On Monday a 15-year-old boy in Santee, California, opened fire in his high-school, killing two teenagers and injuring 13 other people.
School officials in Williamsport canceled classes and sent hundreds of Bishop Neumann students to a nearby church where they could be picked up by parents.