Two Arrested After Shots Fired at Wilson High Students

Updated Friday 12:30 a.m.: Two suspects were arrested in the after-school shooting at Wilson High students Thursday and a third is missing. Police searched an apartment building near the 10th and Grand location of the shots fired but called it off about 7 p.m. Police did not name the arrested or the charges due to the investigation still underway.

Update 6:40 p.m.: The people fired upon were Wilson High students,said Sgt. Rico Fernandez, and the shooter who fled on foot may be inside an apartment complex near that location.

Updated 5:30p.m.: Two subjects are detained and the shot was fired at a group of people.

A group of Wilson High students was fired upon by a male on foot a half mile from the campus and after school, police and the Long Beach Unified School District reported today.

None of the students was injured in the 3 p.m. shooting near Grand Avenue and 10th Street, said Long Beach police Sgt. Rico Fernandez, the department spokesman.

Though most of the high school's 4,300 students had left the campus, Wilson was briefly locked down--nobody allowed in or out--for the few hundred people remaining there; a junior varsity football game was paused until the school got the all-clear, Long Beach Unified School District spokesman Chris Eftychiou said.

"The suspect fled on foot and officers believe he is contained in an apartment complex in the area of 10th Street and Grand Ave," Fernandez said by e-mail. "The search for the shooter continues and the investigation is currently ongoing. Nnothing more that can be released at this time."

Original report:

Wilson High School was briefly on lockdown--no one in, no one out-- from about 3:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. today after reports of shots fired in the neighborhood, Long Beach Unified School District confirmed.

"My understanding is that the shooting happenend about a half mile from the school at 10th and Grand,"  said LBUSD spokesman Chris Eftychiou.

Early reports indicated that the shooting might have occured closer to the campus and the police investigation was underway.

"School had already let out earlier, but we still had several hundred students on campus for after-school activities," said Eftychiou.  "A JV football game was temporarily halted as a precaution but soon resumed."

Long Beach Police Sgt. Rico Fernandez told LBReport.com that a male fired one shot at a group of males and, standing nearby, females, and that no one was struck. Police set up a perimeter through which nobody could pass, and detained two males for questioning, said Fernandez, spokesman for the Long Beach Police Department.

We will update the story as news comes in.