armed student holding class hostage. WI.

[Lady Cop]

AP

DEVELOPING: An armed student is holding a classroom hostage at a high school in Wisconsin, with no immediate reports of injuries or shots fired.

Twenty-three students and one female teacher are being held in a classroom at Marinette High School, Police Chief Jeff Skorik said Monday evening. Police know the identity of the suspect and are trying to reach his parents.

Police also have been in communication with the teacher inside the classroom, Skorik said. She confirmed that she and the students were being held hostage at gunpoint, but Skorik didn't elaborate on the details of her communication with police.

Negotiations were not yet under way with the suspect, he said.

A school administrator reported the hostage standoff at the end of the school day, 3:48 p.m. local time Monday, saying the student burst into the classroom and took hostages.

Choral teacher Bonita Weydt said she was talking with a teacher in another classroom after school, which lets out about 3:10 p.m., when principal Corry Lambie came in.

"I said, 'Corry, what's going on?' and he said, `Get out of the building,"' Weydt said.

Parents were asked to respond to the county courthouse to receive information on their children.

Marinette is about 50 miles north of Green Bay and sits on the border with Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The high school has an annual enrollment of approximately 800 students, according to its website.

[Lady Cop]

(CNN) -- A handgun-toting student is holding 23 classmates and a teacher hostage inside a room at a northeast Wisconsin high school, police said Monday night.

The young male took over the classroom sometime near the end of the school day Monday, preventing anyone from leaving and eventually communicating with police through ateacher, Marinette Police Chief Jeffrey Skorik told reporters.

Refuting rumors circulating on social media sites, Skorik said authorities did not believe anyone had been hurt thus far at Marinette High School or that any shots had been fired.

The chief said that the student had no previous run-ins with the law, adding that it wasn't clear why he took hostages.

"We have no idea, as far as his motivation at this point," Skorik said.

A school administrator called police at 3:48 p.m. (4:48 p.m. ET) Monday, after most students had left for the day, reporting that an armed student had gone into a classroom and taken those inside hostage.

About 40 law enforcement personnel converged on the scene, including hostage negotiators who set up inside the school, according to Skorik. They had not talked directly with the student some three hours into the incident, but did get regular updates from the teacher.

Skorik said that the hostage-taker is a student at Marinette High, and that he believed -- though he could not confirm -- was assigned to the class that he took over.

Police know the identity of the student, though they haven't name him publicly, and have talked with his family members. Skorik said law enforcement believe the the young male, armed with a single handgun, is acting alone.

Law enforcement urged parents who didn't know their children's whereabouts to go to the Marinette County Courthouse, where they could see those on the affected class's roster, talk with police and get help from mental-health counselors.

Dozens of students and family members also gathered at a nearby hair salon, and the street to the high school was blocked off, according to CNN affiliate WBAY.

parents:

[Lady Cop]

good sign, 5 have been released.

[Lady Cop]

i hope this is true!

MARINETTE, Wis. (WFRV) -- Further information in the hostage situation in Marinette has been released by Marinette Police Chief Jeff Skorik at a press conference held at 6:45 p.m.

The hostage situation at Marinette High School has been resolved, all hostages have been released.

[Cracker]

That kid fucked himself. Right around Christmas, too. Dumbshit.

This is a good reminder that they let crazy fucking kids go to school with the rest of the kids.

But then, they let crazy fucking adults live out here with the rest of us.

[Lady Cop]

(CNN) -- A 15-year-old northeast Wisconsin high school student held 24 hostages for about five hours Monday, then turned one of his guns on himself when police broke in at the sound of gun shots.

All of the hostages -- 23 students and one female teacher -- walked away shaken but unharmed, Marinette Police Chief Jeff Skorik told reporters.

The hostage-taker was treated by emergency medical personnel at the scene, then transported to Bay Area Medical Center in Marinette, Wisconsin. Skorik said he did not know the boy's condition as of 9:45 p.m. Monday.

The hostages' release capped a perilous afternoon and evening in Marinette, a town of about 11,600 residents bordering Lake Michigan.

The male student, who had a .22-caliber semi-automatic and a 9-millimeter semi-automatic, took over his first-floor classroom about 3 p.m. Monday, as classes were ending at Marinette High School, said Skorik. He prevented anyone from leaving the room and would only communicate with police via the teacher, Skorik said.

The hostages later told police that he fired one or more of the guns.


edit to add tuesday: the gunman, age 15, Sophomore Samuel Hengel, has died of his wounds.