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Skyline College Shooting

SAN BRUNO, Calif. — California’s Skyline College campus is on lockdown as police search for a suspect who shot and wounded a student.

Leslie Shelton, director of the school’s learning center in San Bruno, says a student came into her building about 1 p.m. bleeding from an apparent gunshot wound.

She says police are searching for the shooter, checking cars that are leaving the campus.

The school is sending text messages to students, telling them to take shelter where they are.

Skyline College Shooting

A man was shot at Skyline College in San Bruno, California this afternoon at about 1:30 p.m. The campus has been locked down while police investigate the scene.

From Fox News:

The campus Web site posted the following “Emergency Notification” for students and faculty: “We have had a shooting on campus and are now in lockdown. Please shelter in place, away from windows, with doors shut until further notice. We are sending an emergency text message to all students.”

“We are trying to get everyone safe on campus,” wrote Lori Adrian, Vice President of Student Services, in a statement to The Skyline View.

Skyline College officials ordered a lockdown this afternoon after a student was shot in the buttocks in a parking lot there, officials told the San Francisco Chronicle. The wounded student is being treated in a nearby hospital.

The shooting happened in the parking lot campus in San Bruno, near the community college’s science building, the paper reported.

The shooter was believed to be at large on the campus Wednesday afternoon. San Bruno police were systematically clearing the school’s classrooms this afternoon, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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