Updated at 2:31 p.m. ET
TAFT, Calif. A student was shot and wounded at a rural San Joaquin Valley high school Thursday and another student was taken into custody, officials said.
The shooting occurred about 9 a.m. at Taft Union High School, a community of fewer than 10,000 people amid oil and natural gas production fields about 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
The student who was shot was flown to a hospital in Bakersfield, said Ray Pruitt, spokesman for the Kern County Sheriff's Department. There was no immediate word on the victim's condition.
Pruitt said the suspect is a student, and a shotgun was used in the attack.
Kern County Fire Department Eric Coughran told CBS Bakersfield affiliate KBAK-TV that another person suffered some type of injuries in the incident but refused medical attention.
It was not immediately clear how many students are enrolled at the high school, which teaches 9th through 12th grades.
The shooting happened on the second floor of the school's science building, KBAK-TV reports.
The Taft shooting came less than a month after a gunman shot his mother to death at home before carrying out a massacre on 20 children and six women at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and then killing himself.
That shooting prompted President Obama to promise new efforts to curb gun violence. Vice President Joe Biden, who was placed in charge of the initiative, said Tuesday in Washington, D.C., that he would deliver new policy proposals to the president by next week.
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