US teen shot by fellow student at school A 14-year-old has been wounded in a shooting at a school in the US city of Atlanta. A US student has opened fire at his middle school, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police say. Multiple shots were fired in the courtyard of Price Middle School just south of downtown about 1.50pm and one boy was hit, Atlanta Police Chief George Turner said. In the aftermath, a teacher received minor cuts, he said. The wounded boy was taken "alert, conscious and breathing" to Grady Memorial Hospital, said police spokesman Carlos Campos. Grady Heath System Spokeswoman Denise Simpson said the teen had been discharged from the hospital on Thursday night. Campos said charges against the shooter were pending. Police swarmed the school of about 400 students after reports of the shooting while a crowd of anxious parents gathered in the streets, awaiting word on their children. Students were kept at the locked-down school for more than two hours before being dismissed. Investigators believe the shooting was not random and that something occurred between the two students that may have led to it. Schools Superintendent Erroll Davis said the school does have metal detectors. The obvious question is how did this get past a metal detector? Davis asked about the gun. That's something we do not know yet. The armed resource officer who took the gun away was off-duty and at the school, but police didn't release details on him or whether he is regularly at Price. Since 20 children and six adults were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in December, calls for armed officers in every school have resonated across the country. Hours after the Atlanta shooting, several school buses loaded with children pulled away from the school and stopped in front of a church about a half-block away. Parents tried boarding the buses and police who initially tried to stop the parents, relented and screamed, "Let them off!" about the students. James Bolton was at work when his sister called saying a teen had been shot at his son's school and was in the crowd as parents began swarming the fleet of buses. "Move, I see my son, I see mine!" he said, running up to embrace James Bolton Jr. "As long as I got this one back I'm OK," he said, holding his son's head against his chest as parents nearby frantically searched for their children. Bolton Jr said he was in class when the intercom sounded and a school official announced the building was under immediate lockdown. "They told us we had to be quiet," Bolton said. They said something went on in the courtyard. Bolton said he was unaware that anyone had been shot until a reporter asked him about it. Superintendent Davis sympathised with concerned parents who complained that it took too long for students to be released from the building. He said emergency procedures were followed according to protocol and school district officials would meet on Friday to review their response.