January 10, 2013 1:40 PM
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Shooting reported at high school in Taft, Calif.
Sign for Taft Union High School in Taft, Calif., where a shooting is reported on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2012.
/ KBAK(CBS/AP) TAFT, Calif. - A shooting has been reported at a high school in Taft, Calif. One student is said to have been shot.
Kern County sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt also says a suspect is in custody and is believed to be a student as well..
Pruitt says the wounded student was flown to a hospital in Bakersfield.He says it's believed a shotgun was used in the attack.
Taft is a community of about 7,000 some 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles, in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
City manager's assistant Debra Elliott says the shooting was reported shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday.
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