OMAHA, Neb. — A 17-year-old is facing multiple charges after a shooting a Burke High School left another teen injured.
According to the Omaha Police Department, officers responded to the school around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday morning for reports of a shooting near the school's baseball field.
When they arrived, the located another 17-year-old with a gunshot wound to the arm outside the school. He was later transported to a local hospital, and is expected to survive.
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The suspect was located inside the school, where he was taken into custody.
He's facing charges of second degree assault, use of a weapon to commit a felony, possession of a stolen firearm, and tampering with evidence.
OPD said that the shooting was an isolated incident that stemmed from a fight between the students. Classes returned back to normal and lockdown protocol was lifted soon after the shooting.
3 News Now spoke to some parents outside of the school on Wednesday afternoon, they stated that the normalization of violence is scary to them.
"Its scary that this is normal to them," Erin Plouzek, who has two freshmen at the school, said. "It doesn't faze them in the least, you know? I don't want to come home from school if something like this happens; (they) just go about their day, and that in itself is the scariest part."
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