(CNN) — Another high school has turned into a scene of carnage, this time in western Kentucky.
Fourteen people were wounded, two of them fatally, after a shooter opened fire Tuesday morning at Marshall County High School, Gov. Matt Bevin said at a news conference. Another five people sustained other injuries.
A 15-year-old male student was arrested at the scene and will be charged with murder and attempted murder, Bevin said. Marshall County Attorney Jeff Edwards said it’s likely the suspect will be charged as an adult, but his name won’t be released unless he’s indicted.
The slain victims were a boy and a girl, both 15 years old. The girl died at the scene and the boy died at a hospital, State Police Commissioner Richard W. Sanders said. The conditions of the injured students were not immediately known.
Sanders said the suspect, armed with a handgun, walked into the school at 8:57 a.m. ET and started shooting.
‘Mom, there’s been a shooting’
Several parents said their children told them the shooting started in the commons area before classes started, CNN affiliate WSMV reported.
Missy Hufford said her son, Ethan, 15, ran into the gymnasium and out of the building through a side door. Then he called and asked her to pick him up, she said.
“I know when he called me, he said, ‘Mom, there’s been a shooting.’ And I asked him if he was OK, and he said, ‘I’m running,’” WSMV reported.
Parent Misty Green said her daughter, Morgan, also was in the commons area and “heard the ‘pop, pop, pop’ and initially got down, and then just realized what was going on, so they took out running out of the building as fast as they could.”
“And teachers were grabbing kids up and helping them get into safe places. And helping them get outside and get to a safe location,” Green told WSMV.
Junior Taylor Droke told CNN affiliate WZTV that she and a friend were running late and arrived as students poured out of the school.
“You could see students dropping their bags and just start running, pushing past each other,” she said. “Everyone in cars started turning around and driving away. Kids were jumping the fence around the school and running through the woods.”
Droke said she contacted her mother on Facetime. Then she and her friend gave a ride to some students and loaned them phones to call their parents.
“Everyone just left their bags and ran, so people had no cellphones,” Droke said.
Hospital news conference
Five male students were taken to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, about 100 miles away by helicopter.
Three of them were shot in the head, one in the arm and one in the abdomen, Dr. Oscar Guillamondegui, medical director of the trauma intensive care unit, said at a news conference. He didn’t identify the students.
One of the students with a head wound died, but the others are expected to survive, he said.
“There’s never a day you’re prepared to be happy like a moment like this,” Guillamondegui said. “We’re just as devastated as anybody would be. Luckily, we’re trained and prepared.”
Authorities have not provided a possible motive.
Tuesday’s attack came one day after another school shooting at Italy High School in Ellis County.
On Monday, 15-year-old Noelle “Cricket” Jones was shot by a fellow student.
The motive for that shooting also remains unclear but the boy reportedly had a crush on Jones and the feeling was not mutual.
The alleged shooter is facing murder charges.
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