Targeted shooting in Greenwood leaves 16-year-old Whiteland Community High School student killed

A 16-year-old Whiteland Community High School student was killed in an apparent targeted shooting in Greenwood Thursday morning at a bus stop, police said.

A student at Whiteland Community High School was fatally shot while waiting for a school bus on Thursday morning, and the police are still seeking for the person responsible for the shooting.

In Greenwood, sheriff’s deputies responded to a complaint of shots fired just before 7 a.m. near the intersection of Winterwood Drive and Providence Drive, which is close to the intersection of East Worthsville Road and U.S. 31.

Matt Fillenwarth, the assistant chief of police in Greenwood, stated that the victim was a boy who was 16 years old and a sophomore at Whiteland. The victim had just recently transferred to the school system.

The victim sustained multiple gunshot wounds, leading the police to assume that the shooting was intentional. According to Fillenwarth, the suspect approached the victim while he was waiting with many other people for the school bus. The perpetrator fled the scene on foot after the shooting, and the witnesses fled before the victim was shot.

According to Johnson County Sheriff Duane Burgess, who spoke to FOX3 News about the investigation, various agencies have responded to the search for a suspect.

The search included a helicopter from the Indiana State Police as well as a K-9 unit from the ATF.

According to a spokeswoman for Greenwood Community Schools, the lockdown procedure was implemented at the beginning of the school day as a precaution.

Greenwood High School communicated via social media at 7:45 in the morning that the school had transitioned from a lockdown to a lockout situation. The school’s exterior doors were locked, and students were instructed to remain in their current locations unless given administrative approval and escorted out of the building.

The superintendent of the Clark-Pleasant Community School Corp., Dr. Patrick Spray, released a statement in which he offered his condolences to the victim’s family as well as his friends. Spray also claimed that additional officers have been placed into the school buildings of the district, and counselors would be present to assist students in coping with the incident when it occurs.