Oshkosh West High School locked down after officer shoots armed student

A student confronted a school resource officer with a weapon Tuesday morning at Oshkosh West High School and both were injured in a shooting, police said.

The incident happened at Oshkosh West High School in Winnebago County, about 75 miles northwest of Milwaukee.

Officials said the student and resource officer were taken to local hospitals but did not say how badly they were injured. Police did not identify the type of weapon the student had at the time. They characterized the incident as an "officer involved shooting."

The school was kept on lockdown and parents were told they could pick up their children at a local middle school.

According to emergency radio traffic, a dispatcher reported gunshots at Oshkosh West around 9:20 a.m. One trauma patient was being transported to a trauma center in Neenah.

"This incident is being turned over to the state department of criminal investigations who will conduct the investigation," police said.

Senior Dakota Meisel told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in a Facebook message the lockdown was announced around 9:10 a.m., at the beginning of the school's second period.

Meisel said a teacher came into the classroom looking nervous and told the students to get away from the windows and get into lockdown mode just before the lockdown was announced. Meisel said the students were scared.