A shooting that left one person injured in Santa Maria led to lockdowns for two nearby schools as a precaution Monday afternoon.
At 12:21 p.m., Santa Maria police officers responded to a shooting on the 800 block of North Thornburg Street, and found a 20-year-old man with a single gunshot wound to the leg, police Lt. Woody Vega said.
The victim was transported to Marian Regional Medical Center for treatment and was in stable condition, Vega added.
As police converged on the neighborhood where the shooting occurred, El Camino Junior High School was put in a shelter-in-place situation, according to Maggie White, spokeswoman for the Santa Maria-Bonita School District.
A short time later, nearby Robert Bruce Elementary School also went into lockdown mode.
“Students and staff at both schools stayed indoors with the campus gates closed and building doors locked during the incident,” White said.
The shelter-in-place designation lasted less than an hour, and was lifted when police deemed the neighborhood safe, she added.
“There was never a dangerous situation on either of the two campuses, and students and staff were safe at all time,” White said.
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