1 student wounded in Ariz. school shooting

Updated 11:26 PM ET

(AP) WILLCOX, Ariz. - A man fired a rifle indiscriminately at a southeastern Arizona high school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 17-year-old boy who was watching a baseball game, police said.

Arthur J. Tineo, 40, was arrested shortly after the shooting at Willcox High School, and the weapon he is accused of using was recovered about a block south of the scene, according to the Willcox Department of Public Safety.

DPS Chief Jake Weaver said authorities believe Tineo fired three rounds, but they don't yet know the motive for the shooting in the small high-desert town about 200 miles southeast of Phoenix. It happened shortly after 3 p.m., after classes were done for the day.

The wounded student suffered minor cuts from flying glass when the car he was riding in was shot at, authorities said. Another juvenile in the same car escaped injury, and authorities said a school employee was fired upon as he was trying to clear the area during the shooting.

No other injuries were reported among the spectators watching a varsity baseball game between Willcox High and Valley Union High.

Weaver said Tineo, of Willcox, was booked into Cochise County Jail on suspicion of three counts of attempted murder, plus charges of assault, endangerment, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, prohibited possession of a firearm, disorderly conduct with a weapon, and discharging a weapon within city limits.

It was unclear whether Tineo had a lawyer yet.

Weaver said Tineo "does have a record" but he couldn't immediately provide details about his prior offenses.

Willcox DPS responded after receiving a 911 call about a man in a field across from the school's baseball field, shooting a rifle toward the campus grounds. The area was locked down for several hours until authorities "felt comfortable" that only one suspect was involved and that person was in custody, Weaver said.

"We don't know if he had a specific target because our officers haven't had a chance to talk to him yet, but it appears he was firing indiscriminately," Weaver said. "We don't know what his motive was at this time."

About 500 students from the Willcox area attend the high school. The city has a population of about 3,800 and still has the feel of the Old West with its antique shops and museums.

[14FREEK]

this is one stupid azz repport

[credibility2]

All of this goes back to lack of cohesiveness, morality and proper upbringing in the family and how people are being raised and inculcated by the government not to have any responsibility or accountability for their actions because the systems have been diminished and rigged to accommodate and pander to large groups of individuals...the government controls large groups of individuals by constantly giving them rewards without responsibility...

[pr_boxer]

Arizona the land of crazed gun owners.

[djseavy]

It wasn't the rile that wounded the student? Rather moronic. Wheather gun rights activists want to admit it or not, guns have become the weapon of choice when it comes to violent crime involving people being injured and/or killed. I'm for gun rights, but it's infantile to try to erase the gun in the incident.

[Kovacsmaster]

You can kill people by driving over them with your car, hitting
them in the head with a ball bat, cutting their throat with a knife,
pouring gasoline on them and igniting it, make a home made bomb,
take flying lessons, rent an airplane and crash into a crowd,
the ways of killing lots of people quickly is endless, lets just
outlaw everything!

[erasmus111]

You keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.

And yeah, people can use all those things, but ain't it funny that they usually go for the good old gun? Why is that?

[rwsmith29456]

It's useless to bother with motive these days. Mean and crazy is enough and covers most of it nowadays.

[sandiegopete]

Just remember, it was not the rifle that wounded the student. It was the person. Why, that person would have wounded the student even if a rifle as not available to him.

[Lazybones2000]

Yeah, he'd probably have thrown a rock at him or something. You can put somebody's eye out that way...

[erasmus111]

"Why, that person would have wounded the student even if a rifle as not available to him."

Probably not. What's it like living in LaLa Land?