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This morning at around 9 a.m. local time, a female allegedly shot a fellow classmate outside the band room at Alpine High School in West Texas.

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The suspect – who has not yet been identified – fatally shot herself after taking aim at the classmate, whose has been hospitalized.

The condition of the victim has not yet been released.

According to local radio station KVLF, Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson stated that the student who had been shot ran out to the street to seek help, was thankfully picked up by some locals who then took her to the hospital.

“This community did not expect this," Dodson said.

"We don’t want this and we can’t explain it yet.’

A federal agent was also shot accidentally by a marshal, and his condition is listed as stable.

"It was scary, I didn’t really know what was going to happen," 17-year-old senior William Butler told NBC News, recalling that he heard a friend in the hallway screaming for people to run.

A teacher then came into the room and instructed everyone to hide themselves, turned off the lights and locked the door.  

Butler said less than ten minute later, he and everyone else in the room heard gunshots.

"The cops knocked on the door a little bit later and started to escort everyone out," Butler said.

"When the police escorted us out of the classroom, there was a trail of blood going from the hallway I was going in towards the band hall."

Fellow student Keyshla Vargas was evacuated from her engineering class to a nearby church after she hid in a closet with other students and teachers.  

While crammed inside, everyone made sure to turn off their cell phones.

"Our teacher said to be quiet, that this was not a drill," Vargas recalled.

"We heard yelling and then we heard gunshots."

Vargas said she took another student’s hand and they started praying together, and were then found by police.

Vargas told CNN that as she and and others were being escorted out of the building, she noticed "blood on the floor in the cafeteria.

"One of the officers told us to keep our hands up and run out of the building, so I only saw the blood quickly.

"It was so scary and very intense. I’ve never been so scared in my life."

A motive for the shooting has not yet been determined.  

Alpine is about 200 miles east of El Paso, with a population of roughly 6,000 people.