Shooting in Reedley puts two schools on lockdown

REEDLEY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A shooting successful Reedley connected Friday forced 2 adjacent schools to spell into lockdown, according to the Kings Canyon Unified School District.

District officials accidental the schools, Grant Middle School and Mountain View School, were temporarily placed connected lockdown pursuing the shooting, which took spot disconnected field successful the Reedley area.

During the lockdown, students remained wrong the schoolhouse sites until Reedley Police officers secured the scene.

The Reedley Police Department reports that they volition supply further officers astir field to marque definite students enactment safe.

The circumstances surrounding the shooting person not been officially released by the Reedley Police Department.

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This is an ongoing investigation.