Carson City emergency crews respond to person with gunshot wound near high school
UPDATE 9:15PM: Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said the person who was found injured in a field off Saliman and Pinto streets suffered a gunshot wound that appears self inflicted. There is no immediate outside threat to Carson High School, the sheriff informed Carson City School District officials. The school was never on lockdown.
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Carson City Sheriff's Office deputies and the Carson City Fire Department were called called Tuesday morning to a person found severely injured but alive in a field near Carson High School with a gunshot wound to the head.
The incident was reported at around 8:30 a.m. where a caller to dispatch said there was a person under a cottonwood tree in the Lompa Ranch area off Pinto and Saliman who appeared dead. Arriving Carson City sheriff's deputies arrived on scene and saw the person was alive and breathing with a gunshot wound to the head.
A Care Flight air ambulance was called and will land near the high school. It has not been determined if the injury was self inflicted. Detectives have been called to the scene.
We will update this as more information becomes available.
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