Empty school buses leave after a shooting at Noblesville West Middle School in Noblesville, Ind., on Friday, May 25, 2018. A male student opened fire at the suburban Indianapolis school wounding another... (Associated Press) 
 
 Empty school buses leave after a shooting at Noblesville West Middle School in Noblesville, Ind., on Friday, May 25, 2018. A male student opened fire at the suburban Indianapolis school wounding another... (Associated Press) 
 
 NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on a possible shooting at an Indiana middle school (all times local): 
 
 4:40 p.m. 
 
 An Arizona man says his brother, an Indiana teacher, has undergone surgery after being shot three times when he intervened in a school shooting at his middle school. 
 
 Indianapolis news media identified Jason Seaman as the Noblesville West Middle School teacher who a student says tackled the shooter after he fired four to six shots inside a science classroom Friday morning. 
 
 Jeremy Seaman tells The Indianapolis Star that his brother was conscious after the shooting and talked with his wife, telling her he was OK. 
 
 Jeremy Seaman says his brother was a defensive end for Southern Illinois University's football team and has never been a person to run away. 
 
 Seventh-grader Ethan Stonebraker says Seaman ran at the shooter "swatted a gun out of his hand and tackled him to the ground." 
 
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 3:25 p.m. 
 
 A police spokesman say several search warrants have been obtained as investigators work to determine how a suburban Indianapolis middle school student obtained the handguns he brought to a classroom where he shot a teacher and another student. 
 
 Noblesville police Lt. Bruce Barnes declined to say whether the male student was targeting anyone during Friday morning's shooting at Noblesville West Middle School. Barnes said the suspected shooter wasn't injured and wouldn't comment on whether the student had been in trouble before. 
 
 The police chief says the student asked to be excused from class, then returned with two handguns and opened fire. Jowitt says the student was quickly taken into custody. He didn't confirm accounts that the teacher tackled the shooter after he fired four to six shots. 
 
 The wounded teacher and student were taken to hospitals in Indianapolis. Officials haven't released information on the severity of their injuries. 
 
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 2:25 p.m. 
 
 A police chief says an Indiana middle school student asked to be excused from class, then returned with two handguns and opened fire. 
 
 Noblesville police Chief Kevin Jowitt says a student and teacher suffered gunshot wounds in the Friday morning attack at Noblesville West Middle School. 
 
 Jowitt says the student was quickly taken into custody and didn't confirm accounts that the teacher tackled the shooter after he fired four to six shots. 
 
 The wounded teacher and student were taken to hospitals in Indianapolis. Officials haven't released information on the severity of their injuries. 
 
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 1:50 p.m. 
 
 A student at an Indiana middle school says he saw his science teacher tackle a fellow student who fired shots inside the classroom. 
 
 Seventh-grader Ethan Stonebraker says the class was taking a test at Noblesville West Middle School when the student walked in late, pulled out a gun and started firing. 
 
 He says the teacher "immediately ran at him, swatted a gun out of his hand and tackled him to the ground." Stonebraker adds, "if it weren't for him, more of us would have been injured for sure." 
 
 The teacher and a student were injured in the shooting. Authorities didn't have any information about their conditions. 
 
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 1:30 p.m. 
 
 A mother was so shaken up that she had to be driven to the suburban Indianapolis middle school where a teacher and student were injured in a shooting. 
 
 Jennifer Morris appeared slightly dazed as she arrived Friday at a high school gymnasium to pick up her 14-year-old son Noah, who's a student at Noblesville West Middle School. 
 
 She says she was at work Friday morning when her son sent a text message about the shooting, stunning her. She says the message was "I'm OK, please come get me." 
 
 Officials say the teacher and student who were wounded in the attack were taken to hospitals in Indianapolis. The severity of their injuries is unknown. 
 
 Authorities say a male student at the school is in custody as the suspected shooter. Details about what happened during the shooting haven't been released. 
 
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 1 p.m. 
 
 An eighth-grader says he counted 16 gunshots inside his suburban Indianapolis middle school during a shooting that authorities say left a student and a teacher injured. 
 
 Thirteen-year-old Chris Navarro says he was in an auditorium at Noblesville West Middle School when he heard the shots Friday morning about a minute before the bell rang for the change in classes. He says a lockdown was immediately announced over the school's speaker. He rushed into a small room with three other people to hide. 
 
 Navarro spoke as he was reunited with his parents outside Noblesville High School, where the middle school students were bused after the shooting. 
 
 The teacher and student who were wounded in the attack were taken to hospitals in Indianapolis. The severity of their injuries is unknown. 
 
 Authorities say a male student at the school is in custody as the suspected shooter. 
 
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 11:30 a.m. 
 
 Authorities say the suspect in a shooting at a suburban Indianapolis middle school shooting is a male student and the victims are a teacher and another student. 
 
 Noblesville police Chief Kevin Jowitt says the student suspected in Friday morning's shooting at Noblesville West Middle School is in custody and is believed to have acted alone. 
 
 The teacher and student who were wounded in the attack were taken to hospitals in Indianapolis. The severity of their injuries is unknown. 
 
 After the attack, students at the 1,300-pupil middle school were bused to the nearby high school so that their families could retrieve them. 
 
 Noblesville, which is about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of Indianapolis, is home to about 50,000 people. 
 
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 10:55 a.m. 
 
 Scores of parents have arrived at a suburban Indianapolis high school to pick up their children after a shooting at a nearby middle school in which a child and an adult were injured. 
 
 Erica Higgins was at Noblesville High School to pick up her son after Friday morning's shooting at Noblesville West Middle School, which she learned about at home when a relative called her. 
 
 Higgins told WTHR-TV that her son was shaken up but that he knew little of what happened. 
 
 She says: "I got a 'Mom, I'm scared' text message and other than that, it was 'come get me at the high school,'" 
 
 An Indiana University Health spokeswoman Danielle Sirilla says the adult victim was taken to IU Health Methodist Hospital and the child was taken to Riley Hospital for Children. She didn't know the seriousness of their injuries. 
 
 Authorities say the suspect is believed to have acted alone and was taken into custody. 
 
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 10:45 a.m. 
 
 An official says an adult and a child were injured in a shooting at an Indiana middle school and were taken to hospitals in Indianapolis. 
 
 Indiana University Health spokeswoman Danielle Sirilla said the adult victim in Friday morning's attack at Noblesville West Middle School northeast of Indianapolis was taken to IU Health Methodist Hospital and the child was taken to Riley Hospital for Children. She had no information on their ages or the seriousness of their injuries. 
 
 Authorities say the suspect is believed to have acted alone and was taken into custody. No further details were provided about the suspect, victim or possible motive for the attack. 
 
 Afterward, students were bused to the Noblesville High School gym, where their families could retrieve them. 
 
 Noblesville, which is about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of Indianapolis, is home to about 50,000 people. The middle school has about 1,300 students from grades 6-8. 
 
 The attack comes a week after an attack at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, that killed eight students and two teachers. 
 
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 10:15 a.m. 
 
 Authorities say two victims in a shooting at a suburban Indianapolis middle school are being taken to a hospital and the lone suspect is in custody. 
 
 Bryant Orem, a spokesman for the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, says in a news release that the victims in Friday morning's attack at Noblesville West Middle School are being taken to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis and their families have been notified. He says no other information is available about the victims. 
 
 Orem says the suspect is believed to have acted alone and was taken into custody. No additional information about the suspect was made public. 
 
 Helicopter footage showed students being led from the school to buses north of Indianapolis. Orem says they were being taken to Noblesville High School's gym, where their families can pick them up. 
 
 The attack comes a week after an attack at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, that killed eight students and two teachers. 
 
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 This item has been corrected to reflect that the shooting was at a middle school, not a hospital. 
 
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 9:50 a.m. 
 
 Authorities have detained someone in what they described as an "active shooter" situation at a suburban Indianapolis middle school. 
 
 The Noblesville Fire Department tweeted Friday morning that it was on an "active shooter" scene at Noblesville West Middle School and that a suspect was in custody. It didn't say whether anyone had been shot or provide any other details. 
 
 TV helicopter footage shows students being led out of the school and onto buses. 
 
 Noblesville is north of Indianapolis. ||||| Parents of Noblesville West Middle School students wait to pick up their children outside Noblesville High Schoolafter a shooting was reported at their children's school. (Photo: Arika_Herron/Indy_Star) 
 
 IndyStar will update this story continuously with the latest confirmed information on the Noblesville West Middle School shooting this morning. A teacher and a student were injured, and a male student was detained. 
 
 Male student in Noblesville school shooting had two handguns 
 
 Update from the 2 p.m. press conference with local law enforcement: A boy in the class asked to be excused then returned to class with two handguns, Noblesville Police Chief Kevin Jowitt said. 
 
 A teacher and a student were injured when the boy started shooting, Jowitt said. 
 
 The student was apprehended either in the classroom or the immediate vicinity, Noblesville Police Lt. Bruce Barnes said. 
 
 The school is a crime scene, Barnes said. The investigation is just five hours old. 
 
 Police from multiple agencies have been assisting with the investigation. Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter expressed his frustration. 
 
 "Here we go again," Carter said. "I wish I had the answer. It's just another sad day. Another cotton-picking sad day." 
 
 Officials have not identified the shooter or the victims, nor given updates on the conditions of the two injured. 
 
 Teacher stopped the shooting, parents say 
 
 The teacher injured in the Noblesville West Middle School shooting Friday morning has been identified as Jason Seaman, according to multiple parents interviewed by IndyStar who have children in the school. 
 
 Parents also described how Seaman intervened to help stop the shooter. 
 
 Seaman has been a science teacher for Noblesville schools for nearly four years, according to his LinkedIn profile. He also has been a football coach for seventh-graders for two years. 
 
 Jeremie Lovall said his daughter, a seventh-grader in the school, was in the classroom when the shooting started. She called her dad, who lives in Kokomo, to tell him she was OK. 
 
 “She kept saying, ‘I saw my teacher get shot,’” Lovall said. 
 
 Seaman was shot three times and was undergoing surgery, according to his brother, Jeremy Seaman. 
 
 Jason Seaman, a Noblesville West Middle School teacher who intervened in a school shooting Friday, formerly played football at Southern Illinois University. (Photo: Photo provided by Southern Illinois University) 
 
 Seaman was awake and talking to his wife while en route to the hospital, his brother said. 
 
 Jeremy Seaman said he wasn’t surprised his brother, a former defensive end for Southern Illinois University, put his own safety at risk on behalf of his students. 
 
 “It’s not surprising, to be honest,” he said of his brother’s intervention in the shooting. “He’s not really ever been the person to run away. When the safety of the kids is at hand, it’s not surprising to me that he was going to do what he had to do.” 
 
 More:Teacher identified as Jason Seaman 
 
 Indiana middle school shooting details: one detained, two injured 
 
 At 9:06 a.m., dispatchers received the call of an active shooter at Noblesville West Middle School, police said. Nearby police responded immediately. 
 
 An adult teacher and teenage student were injured in the shooting. Both were taken to IU Health hospitals but the extent of their injuries has not been shared with media. Their families have been notified, Indiana State Police Capt. Dave Bursten said. 
 
 A male student has been detained, Noblesville Police Chief Kevin Jowitt said. 
 
 Around 11:10 a.m., police led someone in handcuffs from the high school into a police SUV. 
 
 Jowitt said a second threat that locked down Noblesville High School on Friday morning is not believed to be related to this incident. 
 
 There is "no information that this is anything other than a communicated threat," Jowitt said. 
 
 Soon after the shooting, a hectic scene erupted outside of the middle school as parents frantically searched for their children and school officials worked to load students into buses. 
 
 The middle-school students were bused to the high school. 
 
 Parents wishing to pick up their children from Noblesville schools may do so throughout the day, school officials said. 
 
 There are no more suspects at this time, police said. 
 
 A press conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. 
 
 Indiana middle school shooting:What we know now 
 
 Related:Where is Noblesville, Indiana? 
 
 Watch live video of the press conference here if video does not appear above. 
 
 'This is surreal,' parent says of Indiana school shooting 
 
 Jayden Williams, an eighth-grader, was in the locker room changing out of his gym clothes when an announcement came over the middle school’s speaker system. 
 
 “It’s not a drill. Shots have been fired by the seventh-grade hallway.” 
 
 He and his classmates escaped through the back of the building and ran through fields, over to the nearby Fox Prairie Golf Course. 
 
 “We were all pretty scared,” he said. 
 
 Eventually, they were bused to the high school to meet up with the rest of the classmates. 
 
 Despite a recent spate of high-profile school shootings, many of the parents milling anxiously around the Noblesville High School parking lot — where parents were directed to pick up their kids — in the heat for hours Friday said they still didn’t expect it to happen here. 
 
 Not in their schools. Not in their neighborhood. Not in Noblesville. 
 
 “I never expected it at a middle school,” said Denisha Williams, Jayden’s mom. 
 
 Jayden didn’t either. “I feel like our school’s generally happy,” Jayden said. “Kids are happy.” 
 
 Chad Lancaster, who has an eighth-grade daughter and sixth-grade son at the middle school, said he heard from his ex-wife in a phone call. 
 
 Their daughter, hiding under her desk, called the mother. She told her to run. 
 
 Lancaster has been trying to reach his son all morning but has not heard back yet. 
 
 “This is surreal," Lancaster said. "This happens in high school, not here." 
 
 Maria Roney, whose son is an eighth-grade student, said that even with seeing school shootings across the country, she never expected it to happen at her son's school. 
 
 “Never thought that this would happen,” she said. “Not in Noblesville.” 
 
 Scene at Noblesville High School after an active shooter situation at the nearby middle school, Friday, May 25, 2018. (Photo: Kelly_Wilkinson/Indy_Star) 
 
 Lilly Kempf, an eighth-grader at another middle school, Noblesville East, held back tears as she talked about the feelings she experienced as she learned the news. 
 
 "I was really nervous for my best friend and my family and..." she briefly trailed off. 
 
 "I wasn't really surprised because after everything had gone down, I had a feeling it would happen eventually, because, you know..." she said as she wiped a tear from her eye. "As soon as we got the code yellow, I knew that's what was going on." 
 
 Mayor John Ditslear was on his way to work when his assistant called him about the shooting. 
 
 He turned his car toward the middle school and arrived around 9:30 a.m., in time to see cops swarming the school, kids being loaded onto buses along Hague Road and some parents searching for their children. 
 
 “We’re praying for everyone involved,” he said. “Those kids were scared to death. It’s a tragic day here in the city of Noblesvsille. You never think it’s going to be at your school.” 
 
 Information on students: Here's where parents should go to get information on their children 
 
 Vice president, governor respond to Indiana school shooting 
 
 Elected officials have offered their prayers and support on Twitter. 
 
 Vice President Mike Pence released a statement to his home state: "To everyone in the Noblesville community – you are on our hearts and in our prayers. Thanks for the swift response by Hoosier law enforcement and first responders." 
 
 Karen and I are praying for the victims of the terrible shooting in Indiana. To everyone in the Noblesville community – you are on our hearts and in our prayers. Thanks for the swift response by Hoosier law enforcement and first responders. — Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) May 25, 2018 
 
 Related: Parents, officials react to shooting 
 
 Gov. Eric Holcomb, who is on the inaugural flight from Paris to Indianapolis, also tweeted: “Speaker Bosma, Pro Tem Long and I are monitoring the situation at Noblesville West Middle School from the air on our return trip to Indianapolis from Europe,” Holcomb said in a statement. “Approximately 100 state police officers have been made available to work with local responders and will offer all assistance needed. Our thoughts are with all those affected by this horrible situation.” 
 
 Congresswoman Susan Brooks, Sen. Todd Young and Sen. Joe Donnelly also tweeted that they were monitoring the situation. 
 
 “My team & I are aware of the horrific shooting at Noblesville West Middle School,” tweeted Brooks, who represents Noblesville in Congress. “My prayers are w/the Noblesville community, especially those who are injured & those who witnessed an active shooter situation- something no one should ever have to go through. Especially children.” 
 
 Indiana Senate Democrats respond to shooting 
 
 Indiana’s Republican-dominated General Assembly just held a one-day special legislative session earlier this month, in part to address school safety issues. Lawmakers approved an additional $5 million in safety improvements grants and made $35 million available for school safety loans. The bill also required school safety audits and allowed schools to barricade doors for three minutes during a fire alarm to investigate an active shooter situation. 
 
 But Democrats criticized the legislation for failing to restrict access to guns. Republicans, who have supermajorities in both chambers, have loosened gun restrictions in recent years, including a 2014 law that allowed guns in locked cars in school parking lots. 
 
 Hours after the Noblesville shooting, Democrats in the Indiana Senate called on lawmakers to impose more restrictions:“Legislators must admit and take seriously that we have to keep guns out of our schools, and restrict access to deadly weapons by dangerous individuals. No child should go through something this traumatizing and it’s our job to stop it." 
 
 State teachers: 'Thoughts and prayers aren't enough' 
 
 The Indiana State Teachers Association released a statement following the shooting: 
 
 "Our hearts go out to the students, educators, families and community members of Noblesville who this morning faced a senseless act of gun violence at Noblesville West Middle School. We understand at least one student and an adult may be injured, and we are praying for the best. 
 
 This national crisis has landed in our backyard. We all have a responsibility to keep our kids safe from violence, and it’s unconscionable that they live in fear that one day their school may be next. When is enough, enough? 
 
 Thoughts and prayers aren’t enough to keep our students and educators safe. We need to keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people. We now know that it is up to communities, families, activists, educators and the students themselves to stand up and demand that those who are trusted with protecting them do their jobs." 
 
 What else we know 
 
 The American Red Cross Indiana Region is standing by to assist. 
 
 This story will be updated. 
 
 Read or Share this story: https://indy.st/2LtPxdd ||||| NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (WTHR) - Police say the Noblesville West Middle School student wounded in a Friday morning shooting at school is in critical condition. 
 
 Family and friends have been wishing 13-year-old Ella Whistler well on social media, saying she underwent surgery Friday at IU Health Riley Hospital for Children. 
 
 Her family released a statement about the shooting Friday night: 
 
 "Our daughter, Ella Whistler, was involved in a horrific shooting today at her school. We will spend the next days and weeks processing what happened and why. But first, we wanted to say she is doing well at Riley Hospital for Children. Her status is critical, yet we are pleased to report she is stable. We’d like to thank everyone across the country who prayed for our family today. We’ve felt those prayers and appreciate each of them. We’d also like to thank the first responders, Noblesville police, Indiana State Police and the medical staff and surgeons at Riley." 
 
 Just down the street at IU Health Methodist Hospital, a teacher hailed as a hero in the shooting is also recovering from his injuries. 
 
 Hours after Jason Seaman was shot while reportedly stopping a gunman in his classroom, the 7th grade science teacher and football coach issued a message of gratitude. 
 
 "To all the students, you are all wonderful and I thank you for your support. You're the reason I teach." 
 
 Seaman also acknowledged the quick action of first responders. 
 
 "The kids got to see him be a bit of a superman today,” said WTHR photojournalist Jim Johnston, who grew up with Seaman in Illinois. 
 
 Johnston was covering the school shooting Friday when he learned his longtime friend was the teacher who witnesses say tackled a student who opened fire. 
 
 "That's Jason,” said Johnston. “That's who he is. “He's going to be the guy that runs into those situations and protects those kids." 
 
 Students who were in Seaman’s classroom during the chaos talked about his actions. 
 
 "Mr Seaman immediately ran at him, swatted a gun out of his hand and tackled him to the ground,” said Ethan Stonebraker. "If it weren't for him, more of us would have been injured for sure and who knows what would have happened.” 
 
 Parents said they were also thankful for Seaman’s heroism. 
 
 "(Seaman) is one of his favorite teachers, one of the best he has ever had. I just can't say enough that that man is a hero,” said Sarah Wax, a NWMS parent. 
 
 Seaman's mother posted also updates on social media. 
 
 "Jason is out of surgery and is doing well. 3 shots, 1 through the abdomen. 1 in the hip and 1 in the forearm. Please pray for the student that was also shot,” read the most recent message. 
 
 Johnston says Seaman is improving in the hospital. 
 
 "His spirits are well. He's recovering fine. Doctors think there's no reason it won't be a full recovery.” 
 
 Johnston says Seaman wasn't trying to be a hero. It was about his students. 
 
 "Talking to him, he loves the kids. He was just doing what he could do for the kids,” said Johnston.
– A male student opened fire at a suburban Indianapolis middle school Friday morning, wounding another student and a teacher before being taken into custody, authorities said. The attack at Noblesville West Middle School happened around 9am, police Chief Kevin Jowitt said at a news conference, per the AP. He said investigators believe the suspect acted alone, though he didn't release the boy's name or the names of the victims, who were taken to hospitals in Indianapolis. Indiana University Health spokeswoman Danielle Sirilla said the teacher was taken to IU Health Methodist Hospital and the wounded student was taken to Riley Hospital for Children. She didn't know the seriousness of their injuries. After the attack, students were bused to the Noblesville High School gym, where their families could retrieve them. USA Today reports that the high school then received some kind of threat, which police suggested might have been a hoax. Erica Higgins, who was among the worried parents who rushed to get their kids, told WTHR-TV that she learned of the shooting from a relative who called her at home. "I just want to get my arms around my boy," she said. Higgins said her son was shaken up but knew little about what happened. "I got a 'Mom, I'm scared' text message and other than that, it was 'come get me at the high school,'" Higgins said.