LOCKDOWN orders have been issued at a Texas school district as police investigate an active situation.
At least three schools in the town of Clint in El Paso were placed on lockdown on Friday morning.
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Mountain View High School, East Montana Middle School, and Montana Vista Elementary School are on lockdown.
Red Sands Elementary School is in a shelter-in-place.
The Clint school district advised parents to avoid the area.
Photos from the scene showed a heavy police presence near the school district.
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About an hour after the schools went into lockdown, the school district confirmed that one person was taken into custody.
No injuries were reported.
Law enforcement is still investigating the incident.
The U.S. Sun has reached out to the El Paso Sheriff’s Office for comment.
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The school district is less than 16 miles east of the Cielo Vista shopping center – the site of one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history.
The 2019 racially motivated attack inside a Walmart left 23 people dead and over 20 others injured.
The Cielo Vista mall was at the center of a second shooting last year.
In the February 2023 incident, an argument between two groups escalated into a physical fight before a 16-year-old suspect pulled out a gun and shot two other teens.
A 20-year-old man, who was with the alleged shooter, was also injured during the shootings.
The 16-year-old gunman ran from the scene before he was fatally shot by a bystander, who was legally armed, police said at the time.
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