Oregon shooting: At least 3 shot outside Rosemary Anderson High School in Portland

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The Fire Department said the victims had been taken to hospital, as police were searching for the assailant who fled from the Rosemary Anderson High School in the northwestern city.

The three victims, believed to be students, then ran back to the school for help, said Police Sergeant Pete Simpson.

The Portland Oregonian newspaper reported that a 17-year-old was shot in the back and that a female student was struck in the chest. There was no immediate information on the third victim.

All three victims were "conscious and breathing" as they were rushed to a local hospital, said the Portland Police.

Police officers reported the shooting after midday on Friday, and believe it may have been gang-related.

The facility in Portland accommodates 190 students who have dropped out of high school and other at-risk or homeless students, according to its website.

Meanwhile, Jefferson High School and Portland Community College were also both placed on lockdown following the shooting, and traffic was being diverted from the area, police said.

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Police arrest man after 4 wounded near high school

(CNN) -- [Breaking news update, posted at 5:48 a.m. ET]

A gang task force arrested a man in connection with a Friday shooting near a high school in Portland, Oregon, police said in a statement Saturday.

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Portland police search for shooter after 4 wounded near high school

(CNN) -- Police searched Friday for a man suspected of shooting four young people near a high school in Portland, Oregon, authorities said.

All of the wounded were conscious when medical technicians arrived at Rosemary Anderson High School, police said in a statement. Three of the victims were taken to a local hospital.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/12/us/portland-school-shooting/index.html

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Not just another garden-variety school:

The facility in Portland accommodates 190 students who have dropped out of high school and other at-risk or homeless students, according to its website.

A gang-related shooting certainly seems likely.

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Police arrest suspect in Portland school shooting
By Associated Press
December 13, 2014 | 7:08am

PORTLAND, Ore. — Police in Portland have arrested a suspect in the shooting that injured three people outside an alternative high school.

Authorities said they stopped a vehicle around 1:30 a.m. Saturday at North Interstate Avenue and Going Street and arrested a 22-year-old man. A handgun was found in the vehicle.

Police were searching an apartment about half an hour later as part of the investigation. The apartment is about five blocks east of the shooting near Rosemary Anderson High School.

Detectives are investigating and will release the suspect’s name and charges after he is booked into the Multnomah County Jail.

Witnesses told police there may have been a dispute outside the high school on Friday, just before the shooting occurred at a street corner.

The assailant and two other people fled, and the wounded students went to the school for help, a police spokesman said. A 16-year-old girl was critically wounded while two males were hospitalized in fair condition. Another girl was grazed by a bullet.

“Based on the investigation thus far, the shooting appears to be gang-related,” Sgt. Pete Simpson said Friday night in a statement.

Police gang investigators “feel comfortable saying this is a gang-related shooting based on some of the people involved,” Simpson added in an interview. Police said they believe the shooter has gang ties. Simpson declined to say which victims might be linked to gangs.

The spokesman said police were still gathering details on the reported dispute.

“There was some kind of dispute between the shooter and some people,” Simpson said. “We don’t know if it was (with) all the victims or one of the victims.”

The victims are students at the high school or in affiliated job training programs, police said.

Police identified the hospitalized victims as Taylor Michelle Zimmers, 16, who was in critical condition; David Jackson-Liday, 20; and Labraye Franklin, 17. Olyvia Batson, also 17, was treated at the scene after a bullet grazed her foot.

Sierra Smith, a 17-year-old student, told The Oregonian she saw one of the male victims being helped by a teacher inside the school.

“He was laying on the ground. He had blood coming out of his stomach,” she said. “It was scary.”

Another student, Oliviann Danley, 16, told the newspaper she saw a boy run into the school and yell, “Oh my God, did I just get shot?”

Rosemary Anderson High School serves at-risk students who were expelled or dropped out, or who are homeless or single parents. According to the school’s website, 190 students annually are enrolled at the north Portland location. The school also has a second location in Gresham. ...

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