Update 12:51 PST: Based on a news conference provide by Kern County and Taft police, here is the sequence of events this morning:

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An ABC affiliate in Bakersfield, CA was first to learn of a shooting at Taft Union High School this morning around 9 a.m.

One student and one teacher were shot. The student was airlifted to a local hospital. The teacher was not seriously injured and refused treatment. The shooter is believed to be a student and is said to have used a shotgun in the attack.

According to a pdf document posted on the Taft Union High website, security at the school includes “Two
campus supervisors and a uniform deputy sheriff (the school resource officer).” One report says a SWAT team was sent to the high school to search for the shooter. He was placed in police custody by 9:20 a.m.

After the incident, students were directed to the nearby football field where there parents can arrange to pick them up.

Word of the shooting broke as some cable news outlets were featuring a statement by Vice President Biden on a White House push for additional gun control in the wake of the Newtown, CT shooting last month.