A Maryland high school will reopen Friday, even as police continue to search for suspects responsible for a shooting that left two teens injured. Mark Segraves reports. (Published Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015) 
 
 One of the two teens who was shot outside a Maryland high school Wednesday night is in critical condition. 
 
 Students will return to Frederick High School for the first time Friday. Two days ago, shots rang out about 8 p.m. outside the school's gymnasium along Carroll Parkway, where a junior varsity basketball game was being played. 
 
 "I heard five shots really quickly. Not quite automatic, but really fast shots," Frederick resident Tom Thompson said. 
 
 Investigators also are looking into reports from students who said they saw four to five males — dressed in big coats and hands in their pockets — walk into the gymnasium during the game and leave shortly before the gunfire rang out. 
 
 The shooter or shooters are believed to have fled the scene on foot, and police believe the victims were targeted. 
 
 "Gunshots going off around a gym packed with kids … You can imagine, everybody’s running," Frederick Police Capt. Richard Hetherington said. 
 
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 The two injured students, who did not attend Frederick High School, were flown to a hospital in Baltimore. One of them is now in critical condition, according to a hospital spokesperson. 
 
 One was shot in the leg and the other was shot in the back. Hetherington did not know the students' ages or genders. 
 
 Police said they're investigating a range of possibilities regarding the motive behind the shooting, including reports from students that it could be gang-related or stem from a rivalry between the two schools playing in the game. They've interviewed about 200 witnesses so far. 
 
 "We have gang problems like any one else ... it's certainly an angle we're not overlooking," Hetherington added. "We're hoping some of the video we acquire can coroborate how many people we're actually looking for." 
 
 School was closed Thursday for the police investigation, but will reopen Friday. 
 
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 Late Wednesday, parents waited outside a nearby bowling alley for their children to be released following a lockdown, which ended about two hours after the shooting. 
 
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 "[I] just want to see my son and make sure he's straight and everything is good ... make sure his mind is in the right place," parent Shawn Rodriguez said. 
 
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 Frederick High School, on the city's west side, has about 1,300 students. The school district said in a statement that the high school and West Frederick Middle School would be closed Thursday for students. 
 
 The Associated Press contributed to this report. 
 
 Copyright Associated Press / NBC4 Washington ||||| Police have not made any arrests after two students were injured in a shooting outside the Frederick High School gym Wednesday night as a junior varsity basketball game was played inside. 
 
 Frederick Police on Thursday said they have not yet identified any suspects or a motive for the attack that left two Frederick County school students injured. Police continued to search around the building Thursday morning. School officials closed Frederick High and nearby West Frederick Middle to students. School staff, however, reported to work at their normal hours. All other Frederick County schools remained open. 
 
 Police said it is unclear how many people were involved in the shooting.They continue to investigate the motive, though some students have reported to police that the incident might have been gang-related or connected to two rival teams. 
 
 Investigators also are looking into reports from students who said they saw four to five males — dressed in big coats and hands in their pockets — walk into the gymnasium during the game and leave shortly before the gunfire rang out, Frederick Police Capt. Richard Hetherington said. 
 
 Officers were called at about 8:10 p.m. at the school in the 600 block of Carroll Parkway for a report of shots fired. 
 
 The Frederick junior varsity basketball team was playing a game against Gov. Thomas Johnson High, school officials said. 
 
 Two junior varsity basketball games were going on at the time of the shooting, bringing students from at least two other high schools on campus, Frederick County public schools spokesman Michael Doerrer said. 
 
 The victims attend a Frederick County school, but not Frederick High, Doerrer said. 
 
 They were flown to a Baltimore hospital for non life-threatening injuries, Frederick Police said in a statement. They have not been identified and police have not given an update on their condition Thursday. 
 
 The victims were teenagers, according to the Frederick County firefighter's union, IAFF Local 3666. Police did not provide their names or ages. 
 
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 The shooter or shooters are believed to have fled the scene on foot, Hetherington said. 
 
 Officers took about 200 people who were at the game into the school cafeteria, secured the building and questioned witnesses, Hetherington said. 
 
 Staff and security personnel were at the game and locked down the school. After police searched the building and conducted interviews, students were taken to the Terrace Lanes Bowling Alley parking lot where they were picked up by their parents. 
 
 Just before midnight, a school bus and a police van pulled into the lot and let off about a dozen students, the first group to be released. 
 
 Frederick High School junior Sofia McCluskey told the Associated Press that she was watching the game and heard a muffled shot. "Someone yelled, `Yo, they're shooting,"' she said. "And we just ran as fast as we could." 
 
 She and her friend, Stephanie Sanchez, said they ran to the locker room and were taken to the cafeteria, where they waited and were briefly interviewed by police. 
 
 Sanchez said it was a frightening experience. "I was, like, shaking the whole time. I still am," she said. 
 
 Tim May said his company, May Investigations, provided two unarmed security guards during the game. One each was positioned at the front and back entrances of the gymnasium. 
 
 "Our job is not to be outside," he said. "When the shooting occurred outside, they moved with the crowd down to the cafeteria." 
 
 May said he spoke to the guards during the incident. He said after the shooting, the two students came into the corridor that leads to the gym. 
 
 "I guess that's why there was a heightened panic," he said. 
 
 Up until then, he said, "it was a very peaceful, very quiet game." 
 
 He said the school's athletic director determines the number of guards needed, and that turnout was expected to be low. He said about 200 attended. A varsity game recently had much larger crowds, when seven guards were requested. 
 
 May said the school typically will have an officer on campus during school hours but will hire unarmed security guards during evenings events, though sometimes police officers may be stationed at the school during football games. 
 
 "I'm hoping they find out this was not school related," he said. "I think everyone was well pleased with the actions after the incidents. There is zero ways to prevent this. You can report it, you can protect. There's no guarantee." He added, "I don't know what could have been done differently." 
 
 Frederick County Public Schools announced the incident on Twitter: "Earlier this evening, two students were wounded in an incident at Frederick High. They are receiving care." 
 
 "All other staff and students at Frederick High are safe and accounted for," the school system said. "Stay tuned. We will have more updates later." 
 
 As a precaution, Hood College was also placed on lock down Wednesday night, police said. 
 
 Officials said a crisis team will be available to students and staff. School officials are making arrangements to return all personal items left at the school. 
 
 If anyone has any information on the shooting, they are asked to call police. 
 
 The Associated Press contributed to this story. 
 
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 twitter.com/cmcampbell6 ||||| Two students were shot outside a Maryland public high school Wednesday night while a basketball game was being played inside causing panic as parents rushed to the scene to make sure their children were OK. 
 
 The Frederick High School students were flown to a Baltimore hospital. The injuries they suffered did not appear to be life-threatening, Frederick Police Capt. Richard Hetherington said. He did not know the ages or gender of the students. 
 
 Hetherington said the shooter or shooters were still at large early Thursday. 
 
 Frederick Police Department Lt. Bruce DeGrange told FoxNews.com the shooting took place at 8 p.m. and the authorities immediately locked down the building. 
 
 Officers took about 200 people who were at the game into the cafeteria. Police secured the building and questioned witnesses, Hetherington said. Students were released to their parents in the parking of a nearby bowling alley. 
 
 Frederick High School junior Sofia McCluskey said she was watching the game and heard a muffled shot. "Someone yelled, `Yo, they're shooting,"' she said. "And we just ran as fast as we could." 
 
 She and her friend, Stephanie Sanchez, said they ran to the locker room and were taken to the cafeteria, where they waited and were briefly interviewed by police. 
 
 Sanchez said it was a frightening experience. "I was, like, shaking the whole time. I still am," she said. 
 
 Dejuan Jones, a sophomore, said, "You would expect it to happen at a varsity game, but it was like a JV game," he said. "Nobody hardly comes to those." 
 
 Frederick County Public Schools officials tweeted that all other staff and students were safe and accounted for. 
 
 The high school has about 1,300 students. The district said that the school would be closed Thursday for students. 
 
 FoxNews.com's Karl de Vries and The Associated Press contributed to this report. ||||| A patient is brought to a helicopter following a shooting outside Frederick High School. (Bill Green/Frederick News-Post via AP) 
 
 Authorities in Frederick County expanded their investigation Thursday into a shooting outside a high school that left two teens wounded as a basketball game was played inside. 
 
 Frederick High School, where the shooting occurred, and a nearby middle school will be open Friday after being closed Thursday as investigators searched the campuses for clues. 
 
 The shooting occurred about 8 p.m. Wednesday as Frederick High School’s junior varsity basketball team was playing rival Gov. Thomas Johnson High. 
 
 When police arrived, they found two people who had been shot outside the school, one 14 and the other 15, authorities said. 
 
 Both are students in Frederick County public schools, authorities said. They suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening and were listed in stable condition Thursday morning, police said. 
 
 Theresa Alban, the superintendent of the county school system, and Brad W. Young, the school board president, responded to Wednesday's shooting at Frederick High School. (Frederick County Public Schools) 
 
 One was shot in the leg; the other, in the back. 
 
 Lt. Joe Hayer, a spokesman for the Frederick police, said officers were searching the grounds of the two schools Thursday “for any evidence that will help generate new leads.” He added that the “suspects are unknown at this time.” On Thursday night, Frederick police said in a statement that they believed the shooter knew the victims. 
 
 Hayer said the shooting was a rarity in the area. “It is an uncommon thing for us to have a shooting event like this at a sporting event,” he said. 
 
 As of Thursday afternoon, law enforcement officers had not notified the school system of any arrests or possible motives in the incident, said Michael Doerrer, a spokesman for the county school system. He said additional security would be provided at several campuses Friday “to reassure people that our schools are safe.” 
 
 The scene at the high school was chaotic when police arrived Wednesday night. The school was locked down immediately after the shooting, and about 200 people who had attended the basketball game were questioned in the cafeteria. By 11 p.m., most of the students and parents were heading home. 
 
 In a six-minute video posted on YouTube, two school officials — Theresa Alban, the county schools superintendent, and Brad W. Young, the school board president — explained that the basketball game was underway when the shooting occurred outside the gymnasium. 
 
 “Several students who had been outside at the time of the shooting came back into the lobby of the gymnasium,” Alban said. “This obviously created some fear among those who were in the basketball game.” 
 
 Officials enter Frederick High School on Wednesday. Police and school officials say students were shot outside the public high school while a basketball game was being played inside. (Bill Green/Frederick News-Post via AP) 
 
 Frederick High School officials said they would have a “crisis team” to offer counseling to students and staff members. 
 
 “What happened this evening does not define in any way what Frederick High School is all about,” Alban said in the video. “We all know that there are issues many times that are out there in the community that sometimes spill into our schools, and that’s exactly what happened.” 
 
 In a Twitter message posted Wednesday night, Frederick County Executive Jan Gardner said she was “saddened by shooting at Frederick High School. Pray for those involved.” 
 
 Clarence Williams contributed to this report.
– Two teens were shot outside a basketball game at Frederick High School in Maryland last night, and as of this morning police were still looking for the shooter or shooters, who are believed to have escaped on foot. "Gunshots going off around a gym packed with kids," is how a police officer described the 8pm scene. "You can imagine, everybody's running." Students told investigators they saw four or five males in big coats, hands in pockets, walk into the gym during the game and leave just before shots were fired, NBC Washington reports. The victims were boys aged 14 and 15, but it's not clear what school or schools they attend, the Washington Post reports. Police are looking into various motives—possibilities include gang-related violence or a rivalry between the two teams (the other school playing was Gov. Thomas Johnson High, the Baltimore Sun reports). "You would expect it to happen at a varsity game, but it was like a JV game," one sophomore tells Fox News. "Nobody hardly comes to those." The injuries to the two students were not believed to be life-threatening. The rest of the students at the school were released after a two-hour lockdown; the high school as well as a nearby middle school are closed today. Frederick has been named one of the most secure American cities, and Frederick County borders some of the richest counties in the US.