Shots Fired At Hug High School In Reno, NV, Police Say

Shots were fired at Hug High School in Reno, Nevada, on Wednesday, and while police offered few details surrounding the shooting, witness accounts and images posted to social media indicated a school resource officer fired at a student who was wielding a knife.

The school was on "Code Red" lockdown while police responded to the scene, according to a Twitter account run by Washoe County schools, but the scene was described as "stable and secure." Reno Police declared the school safe on Twitter around 1:30 p.m. local time.

One student told the Reno Gazette-Journal he saw two students in an argument. One pulled out a knife and stabbed the other, the student told the paper, then a school officer shot the student who was holding the knife.

Read the student's account to the Gazette-Journal here.

The Gazette-Journal also said it reviewed a Facebook video that isn't public which showed a student brandishing a knife. A gun shot is heard, and the video shows a school resource officer holding a gun pointing at the boy, who is lying on the ground, the Gazette-Journal reported.

Speaking to reporters Wednesday afternoon, Reno Police Officer Tim Broadway would not confirm or deny these accounts and asked anyone with evidence to send it to Reno Police.

The school district did say on Twitter that the person who was shot was taken to the hospital.

KTVN reported that one person was shot, citing police, who did not say whether that person was a student. An officer was involved in the shooting, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported, citing school police.

The condition of the person who was shot was not immediately known.

"The best thing is to keep checking social media and checking messages from the school," Megan Downs, a spokesperson for the Washoe County School District, told the Gazette-Journal.

Reno Police initially reported the news in a tweet. (Note: The school is Hug High School, not Hig, as the tweet states.)