Shots fired at Texas college campus; 3 wounded

Reuters: Richard Carson. Lone Star College shooting: Students evacuate on foot with a Sheriff's Deputy alongside at the Lone Star College North Harris campus in Houston, Texas, Tuesday. IMAGE

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Police responded to reports of multiple people shot on the Lone Star College-North Harris campus near Houston.

Two people exchanged gunfire Tuesday at a Texas college near Houston, and at least three people were wounded, authorities said.
Investigators said the shooting happened around 12:30 p.m. on the campus of Lone Star College-North Harris, north of Houston.

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"At first glance, (the shooting) appears to be between two individuals," Jed Young, a spokesman for the Lone Star College System, told CNN. "There were two students we believe were shot in the crossfire."
Maj. Armando Tello of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said a total of three people were confirmed injured and one "person of interest" was detained.
The other shooter fled campus, and officers were scouring the area for him, Young said.
"Police believe the danger has been mitigated. The school is under control," though evacuations continued, Young told CNN.
Young didn't know if the shooters were students.
KPRC-TV reported that a fourth person suffered a possible heart attack during the chaos.
Dozens of law enforcement officers were searching a wooded area north of the campus for the second suspect, KHOU reported.
"It's a pretty chaotic scene at this point in time," Vicki Cassidy, manager of media relations for Lone Star College System, told The Houston Chronicle.
The school posted a notice on its website about the shooting.
Cody Harris, 20, said he was in a classroom with about six or seven other students waiting for a psychology class to start when he heard eight shots. He and other students looked at each other, said "I guess we should get out of here," and fled.
"I was just worried about getting out," Harris told The Associated Press. "I called my grandmother and asked her to pick me up."
There were conflicting reports on where the shooting started on campus.
Student Amanda Vazquez told CNN she believed the gunfire started in the campus library and then continued in the Academic Building. She said she heard about a half-dozen shots ring out on the first floor of the Academic Building.
"I told my mom that someone was shooting in the building and that I didn’t know what was going to happen" a shaken Vazquez told CNN.

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Lone Star student Daniel Flores, 19, said he was in a tutoring lab on the second floor doing homework when he heard what he heard six to seven shots.
"I didn't think they were shots," he told The AP. "It sounded like someone was kicking a door."
About 60 people were in the lab, and they began running out of the room once they realized the sound was gunfire, he said. They fled to a nearby student services center, where authorities kept them there for about 30 minutes before letting them go.
The Lone Star College System has an enrollment of 90,000 students and six college campuses, according to its website.
Along with the college, four nearby schools in the Aldine Independent School District went into lockdown, a district spokesman said.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.