Three teenagers and a 20-year-old man were shot and wounded on Friday outside a high school in Portland, Oregon, when a gunman, thought to have gang ties, opened fire following a dispute, police said.
The suspect, believed to be in his late teens or early 20s, fled the scene with two other males following the shooting less than one block from Rosemary Anderson High School, and all three remained at large hours later, Portland Police Bureau official Pete Simpson said.
Taylor Zimmers, 16, was struck by the gunfire shortly after noon outside the school in north Portland and was rushed to a hospital where she was listed in critical condition, police said.
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A 17-year-old boy and 20-year-old man were in fair condition at the same hospital and a 17-year-old female was treated and released, police said.
Simpson said all of the victims were affiliated in some way with Rosemary Anderson and ran to the school following the shooting, where they received initial treatment as it was placed on lockdown.
The school reopened later on Friday afternoon. Nearby Jefferson High School and Portland Community College were also placed on lockdown for about two hours, while streets near Rosemary Anderson were blocked off.
Officers with search dogs combed nearby neighborhoods for the suspect, Simpson said, adding that the area had a history of violence, but had not seen a shooting with an injury in nearly four years.
The Portland Oregonian newspaper reported that FBI agents were on the scene to assist police. Parents were reunited with their children at a staging area several blocks from the school.
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales said the shooting represented a “bad day” for a neighborhood that had worked to overcome a history of gang violence.
The Rosemary Anderson Web site says it is a community-based alternative high school serving up to 190 “at-risk” students, many of whom are homeless, or have been expelled or dropped out of Portland’s public high schools.
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