Students, parents traumatized after teen shot inside Omaha’s Northwest High School [Video]

Families of Omaha Northwest High School students descended on the school grounds within minutes of reports of a shooting. 

Some heard the news from social media or the traditional media. Others saw a vague alert sent out by the school district at 12:30 p.m., reporting that the school was “currently in lockdown due to reports of a situation in the building.” Many received tearful phone calls from their children or text messages saying, ‘I love you.’

At 12:23 p.m. Tuesday, a school resource officer at Northwest reported that a student was shot and the suspect ran from the building. The school was placed on lockdown and the victim, a 15-year-old boy, was taken to the hospital in critical condition. He was shot once in the stomach …