From left, Nancy Delgado, Pedro Antonio and his mother, Maria Perez, stand with others outside Hale Middle School in Woodland Hills, where helicopters drummed overhead and hundreds of officers searched for the gunman.
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Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck heads to a news conference at Hale Middle School, one of nine campuses in the Woodland Hills area that was on lockdown Wednesday after a gunman shot a school police officer outside nearby El Camino Real High.
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Officers from the LAPD, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the California Highway Patrol rushed to the area to search for the gunman, who as of Wednesday night had not been found. It was the second school shooting in as many days for a rattled L.A. Unified.
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More than 9,000 students at nine campuses were locked in their rooms, and movement was restricted for the people who lived and worked in the seven-square-mile search perimeter.
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El Camino Real High School student wait to board buses as night falls, after being on lockdown all afternoon.
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Neva Stolte stands with her daughters Abigail Greter and Madison Kerzner and scans the parking lot for her son Max Kerzner. Scores of students met up at the McDonald's near campus to wait for family and friends.
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Parents wait in line to pick up their children from Hale Middle School. The officer who was shot outside the nearby El Camino Real High School campus received only minor injuries, thanks to a bulletproof vest.
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Gardena, Calif. — Students return to Gardena High School on the morning after one of their classmates accidentally shot two fellow students with a gun being carried in his backpack.
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Gardena, Calif. — Students walk back to class at Gardena High School on the day after one of their classmates accidentally shot two fellow students.
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Gardena, Calif. — School officials use a portable metal detector to check students returning to Gardena High School on the morning after one of their classmates accidentally shot two fellow students.
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Gardena, Calif. — Students return to Gardena High School under the watchful eyes of extra police officers after one of the students accidentally shot two others.
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Gardena, Calif. — School officials hand search some of the students returning to Gardena High School on the morning after one of their classmates accidentally shot two fellow students with a gun being carried in his backpack.
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Gardena, Calif. — Parents gather at Gardena High School for a meeting with school and law enforcement officials after one of the students at the school accidentally shot two others.
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Gardena, Calif. — Police enter Gardena High School, where two students were shot Tuesday.
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Gardena — Concerned Gardena High School parent Aneka Stinson waits for her daughter Anastashia near the reunion gate of the campus off 177th Street on Tuesday afternoon.
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Gardena — Police escort a handcuffed youth in front of Gardena High School on Tuesday morning.
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Gardena — Rose Waddle, 50, is among parents waiting near Gardena High. Her son Nicholas Nakaoka, 15, is inside the school while police search for a student after the shootings.
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Gardena — Police officers are in a staging area outside Gardena High, where two students were shot.
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Gardena — Gardena High School student Breana Hill, 15, left, is comforted by her mother Lichelle, after Tuesday's shooting. She told her sister Jazmaine, right, "I was so scared."
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Gardena — Parent Misty Luna argues with law enforcement officers outside Gardena High. Her daughter Elizabeyth is a student.
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Gardena — Eluit Garcia, center, worries about her 16-year-old brother, Andres, who was on campus at Gardena High.
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Gardena — A Gardena High School student and her mother, who declined to be identified, hold one another as they leave campus after students were released from school following a shooting that left two students wounded.
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Gardena — Concerned parents wait for for their children at a gate at Gardena High School.
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Gardena — An armed Gardena police officer stands on Normandie Avenue outside Gardena High after two students were shot there.
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Carson — James Ausman, right, chief physician at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, leads the surgery team that worked on the two Gardena High School shooting victims away from the media after providing an update on the students' conditions.
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