Taft, California - A 16-year-old student shot at a high school in Taft, California Thursday is in critical but stable condition.
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said the shooter is a student who walked into a class at Taft Union High School Thursday morning and shot the teen with a shotgun, and then fired at another student but missed.
A teacher suffered a minor pellet wound to the head.
Youngblood said the teacher tried to get other students out a back door then he and another staff member engaged the shooter in conversation to distract him, and convinced him to put down the gun.
