TAMPA, Fla. — A teenage girl shot at a Tampa apartment complex Friday morning is out of surgery and is expected to live, a Tampa Police Department spokesperson said Friday afternoon.
The shooting prompted a nearby high school to go on lockdown.
Police say the girl, 17, was shot just after 8:30 a.m. during an "altercation" at Arbor Flats apartment complex on Manhattan Avenue. She was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
The altercation involved a group of males and females "believed to be high school age," Tampa Police Department spokesperson Jamel Lanee said in an update. It's not clear if the students attend nearby Robinson High School.
"Right now we’re trying to determine why the juveniles were over here in the first place," she explained.
Robinson High School, which is less than half a mile away from the apartments, was on lockdown as police investigated, the school said in a message to families.
The school's principal did not release details but said it's standard for authorities to call nearby schools and put them on lockdown when a shooting is reported.
Lanee said investigators are talking to multiple witnesses at the apartment complex to determine who fired the gun and what may have led to the shooting.
"There’s a middle school and a high school nearby and all of a sudden, you know, shots rang out. You’re near students, you’re near schools, and you’re in an apartment complex where people are leaving to go to work, so it’s clearly very concerning that a shooting would happen right in the middle of the morning," she added.