<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Courtesy of <a href="http://AL.com">AL.com</a> News (Birmingham, Alabama) at:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/03/possible_accidental_shooting_a.html">http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/03/possible_accidental_shooting_a.html</a><br><div><br></div><div>———————————————</div><div><br></div><div><div><h1 id="articleHeadline" class="p-name" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "Benton Sans Medium", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.9375em; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); letter-spacing: -0.03em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">2 injured in Huffman High School shooting; 17-year-old Birmingham girl dead</h1></div><div><b>Update 6:02 p.m.</b> Huffman will be open, up to parents whether to bring them, Herring said. Press conference is over.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 6:01 p.m. </b>Mayor Woodfin: "We lost a person, not just a person, but a student...Someone's daughter, someone's best friend." She was 30 days away from being 18 and had been accepted into college. "We need to wrap our arms around Huffman High School."</div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 6 p.m.</b> Herring: Full crisis team will be at Huffman High tomorrow, as well as heightened security.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 5:57 p.m.</b> Superintendent Lisa Herring says both students are victims. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 5:54 p.m. </b>Students are being questioned. Wilson said he did not know of a fight or struggle for the gun before the shots were fired.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 5:52 p.m. </b>Chief Wilson did not respond to questions about who fired the shots. He confirmed there are cameras inside the school, and that police will be looking at the footage.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 5:50 p.m.</b> Wilson will not confirm report boy shot himself in abdomen while putting gun back in pants after accidentally shooting girl. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 5:48 p.m.</b> Unconfirmed info from sources say 10th grade boy may have been showing off gun to girls and it discharged. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 5:44 p.m.</b> Birmingham Police Chief Orlando Wilson is first to speak. Offers condolences to victims' families. "Right now we have a lot of unanswered questions." Victims were male and female, both 17. The girl was killed.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 5:37 p.m.</b> Birmingham mayor, police chief and school officials expected to soon address reporters.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 5:10 p.m.</b> The Birmingham City School system released a brief statement: "Two students were involved in a shooting during dismissal today at Huffman High School. The school was placed on a brief lockdown, and police were called to the scene. Students have been released and police are actively investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting."</div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 5 p.m.</b> Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin has entered the school with police.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 4:51 p.m.</b> The surviving student is in critical but stable condition.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 4:46 p.m.</b> The adult victim was treated at the scene and released.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Update 4:39 p.m.</b> Two students were critically injured in the shooting. One died on the way to the hospital. An injured employee is being evaluated at the scene. Original article continues below.</div><div><br></div><div>Three people were injured this afternoon in a possibly accidental shooting at Huffman High School, according to Birmingham police and firefighters.</div><div><br></div><div>The gun believed to have been used in the shooting has been recovered. It is not clear if a suspect is in custody.</div><div><br></div><div>One mother said she was waiting for her daughter outside the school and called her child's cell phone to ask what was taking so long.</div><div><br></div><div>Her daughter, a basketball player, replied: "Mom we're on lockdown."</div><div><br></div><div>The mother, who didn't want her name used, said she was told the victims are a male and female but police have not confirmed that.</div><div><br></div><div>"I was just hoping my baby was OK, that everybody was OK," the mother said. "I was nervous. 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