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A 15-year-old boy was shot and wounded in a junior high school computer lab Tuesday and another eighth-grader was taken into custody, authorities said.
Worried parents gathered outside the 1,150-student E.O. Green Junior High School, which was locked down. Students were released classroom by classroom.
The wounded boy had improved since arriving at St. John's Regional Medical Center in extremely serious condition, police spokesman David Keith said. "We are guardedly optimistic he will make a recovery," he said.
The 14-year-old suspect was being booked for investigation of attempted murder, Oxnard Police Chief John Crombach said.
The shooting occurred near the end of the first period, during an English class that had moved from a classroom to the computer lab, said Jerry Dannenberg, superintendent of the Hueneme School District.
Dannenberg said 22 other students were in the lab at the time.
The one-story campus, which includes grades six though eight, does not have metal detectors.
"I still think the school is safer than any other place in society," Dannenberg said.
Worried parents gathered outside the 1,150-student E.O. Green Junior High School, which was locked down. Students were released classroom by classroom.
The wounded boy had improved since arriving at St. John's Regional Medical Center in extremely serious condition, police spokesman David Keith said. "We are guardedly optimistic he will make a recovery," he said.
The 14-year-old suspect was being booked for investigation of attempted murder, Oxnard Police Chief John Crombach said.
The shooting occurred near the end of the first period, during an English class that had moved from a classroom to the computer lab, said Jerry Dannenberg, superintendent of the Hueneme School District.
Dannenberg said 22 other students were in the lab at the time.
The one-story campus, which includes grades six though eight, does not have metal detectors.
"I still think the school is safer than any other place in society," Dannenberg said.
