The Santa Fe Independent School District said that law enforcement agencies were securing the building and that students were being transported to the nearby Alamo Gym, at 13306 Highway 6, where parents could meet them.<\/p>\n
Several hours after the shooting in Santa Fe, a rural town between Houston and Galveston, police cars blocked the road off the state highway where the town\u2019s only high school is located.<\/p>\n
The school\u2019s buses filed out along a nearby street, empty but for their drivers. Earlier in the morning, Billie Scheumack, 68, was in her backyard when she heard what sounded to her like a couple firecrackers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the kids were playing,\u201d Ms. Scheumack said. \u201cBut then I heard ambulances and fire trucks. It didn\u2019t sound right, so I went out front.\u201d<\/p>\n
There she saw kids from the high school running, scared, clutching their phones, down her street, Tower Road, about a block from the school. A neighbor told her that some kids had been shot.<\/p>\n \u201cIn this little town, you wouldn\u2019t think something like this could happen,\u201d Ms. Scheumack said.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/05\/19\/us\/19xp-santafe-2\/19xp-santafe-2-superJumbo.jpg\")
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